Augustine: The City of God Book X - 9780856688492

Augustine: The City of God Book XAuthor(s): Augustine, Peter Walsh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Aris & Phillips Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780856688492, 978-0856688492\nSynopsis\nThis edition of St Augustines The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods.\n\nFollowing on from Book IX, this book discusses the issue of demons and their role in Platonism as being partly identical with the lesser gods. Having previously argued that in order to achieve the blessed life, we must worship one true God alone, Augustine now continues his discussion using the celebrated .