Books That Matter: The City of God

<p>Travel chapter by chapter through Augustine's masterpiece, as an award-winning professor introduces you to the book's key arguments, as well as the historical context necessary to comprehend The City of God's true power.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: Your Passport to The City of God
• 02: Who Was Augustine of Hippo?
• 03: The Sack of Rome, 410 A.D.
• 04: Augustine's Pagan and Christian Audience
• 05: The Problem of Suffering (Book 1)
• 06: The Price of Empire (Books 2-3)
• 07: Augustine's Political Vision (Book 4)
• 08: Splendid Vices and Happiness in Hope (Book 5)
• 09: Public Religion in Imperial Rome (Books 6-7)
• 10: Who or What Is God? (Books 8-9)
• 11: Sacrifice and Ritual (Book 10)
• 12: Augustine's Critique of Rome (Books 1-10)
• 13: Metaphysics of Creation and Evil (Book 11)
• 14: Fall of the Rebel Angels (Book 12)
• 15: Augustine and Original Sin (Book 13)
• 16: The Two Cities and the Two Loves (Book 14)
• 17: Augustine's Scriptural History (Books 15-17)
• 18: Translating the Imperium (Book 18)
• 19: Happiness and Politics (Book 19)
• 20: Judgments, Last and Otherwise (Book 20)
• 21: Augustine's Vision of Hell (Book 21)
• 22: Heaven: The Self Redeemed (Book 22)
• 23: The City of God as a Single Book
• 24: The City of God's Journey through History