![]() The City of Earth is comprised of those beings who love only themselves and seek their own glory and good. City of God is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of a book. The City of God, according to Augustine, consists of all human and celestial beings united in their love for God and their seeking to glorify Him. ![]() City of God (Penguin Classics) City of God (Penguin Classics): Augustine of Hippo, Bettenson, Henry: 9780140448948: : Books Skip to main content. Because City of God was written for men of classical learning-custodians of the culture Augustine sought to condemn-it is thick with Ciceronian circumlocutions, and makes many stark contrasts between "Your Virgil" and "Our Scriptures." Even if Augustine's prose strikes modern ears as a bit bombastic, and if his polarized Christian/pagan world is more binary than the one we live in today, his arguments against utopianism and his defense of the richness of Christian culture remain useful and strong. City of God (Penguin Classics) Augustine of Hippo, Bettenson, Henry on. The glory that Rome failed to attain will only be realized by citizens of the City of God, the Heavenly Jerusalem foreseen in Revelation. Augustine Subject Area: Political Thought Source: Saint Augustine, A Select Library of the Nicene. ![]() ![]() After the sack of Rome, Augustine wrote this book to anatomize the corruption of Romans' pursuit of earthly pleasures: "grasping for praise, open-handed with their money honest in the pursuit of wealth, they wanted to hoard glory." Augustine contrasts his condemnation of Rome with an exaltation of Christian culture. Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for Roman culture. ![]()
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