The City of God, Books I-VII C.D. Smith Across the history of Christianity

Across the history of Christianity

and institutional communities

secular and democratic voice of a poet who remains the great American modernist

and intersperses thought-provoking `culture notes' throughout

The City of God, Books I-VII C.D. Smith Across the history of ChristianityWritten during the time when the Roman Empire was crumbling, Augustine's De civitate Dei tackles the questions raised by the decline of the political and social order. Here, in Books One through Seven (of the total of twenty two books in this monumental work), Augustine examines the history of the Roman Republic and Empire. Though based on a false religion and a lust for domination, the rise of Rome was nevertheless ordained by God's providence.