Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

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This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete accurate authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei edited together with full biographical notes a concise introduction bibliography and chronology of Augustines life. The result is an important contribution of interest to students of theology philosophy ecclesiastical history the history of political thought and late antiquity.