Book · 426 · Nonfiction

The City of God

Name: The City of God
Author: Saint Augustine

Modern Library (Penguin Random House) · 912 pages

★ 7.5 editorial score

Rome fell to the Goths in 410 and pagans blamed the Christians. Augustine answers by sorting all history into two cities, one built on love of God and one on love of self.

Genre

Philosophy Theology Religion

Subject

Religion Christianity Religion and politics

Setting

Rome

Time

426Depicts Early Christianity

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