A Catholic Community
A Catholic Community
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Bishop and Father of the Church. Convert.
Wrote many seminal works, none greater than 'The City of God', written between 410-426.
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Explore 'The City of God'
Over the course of six sessions, we will explore St. Augustine's masterwork . . . still relevant and revealing 1600 years later.
Book I
Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the gods.
Book II
A review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruption and vice.
Book III
The external calamities of Rome.
Book IV
That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the One True God.
Book V
Of fate, freewill, and God’s prescience, and of the source of the virtue of the ancient Romans.
Book VI
Of Varro’s threefold division of theology, and of the inability of the gods to contribute anything to the happiness of the future life.
Book VII
Of the “select gods” of the civil theology, and that eternal life is not
obtained by worshipping them.
Book VIII
Some account of the Socratic and Platonic philosophy, and a
refutation of the doctrine of Apuleius that the demons should be worshipped as mediators between gods and men.
Book IX
Of those who allege a distinction among demons, some being good
and others evil.
Book X
Porphyry’s doctrine of redemption.
Book XI
Augustine passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin,
progress, and destinies of the earthly and heavenly cities are discussed. Speculations regarding the creation of the world.
Book XII
Of the creation of angels and men, and of the origin of evil.
Book XIII
That death is penal and had its origin in Adam’s sin.
Book XIV
Of the punishment and results of man’s first sin, and of the propagation of man without lust.
Book XV
The progress of the earthly and heavenly cities traced by the sacred history.
Book XVI
The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel.
Book XVII
The history of the city of God from the times of the prophets to Christ.
Book XVIII
A parallel history of the earthly and heavenly cities from the time of Abraham to the end of the world.
Book XIX
A review of the philosophical opinions regarding the Supreme Good, and a comparison of these opinions with the Christian belief regarding happiness.
Book XX
Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments.
Book XXI
Of the eternal punishment of the wicked in hell, and of the various objections urged against it.
Book XXII
Of the eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body, and the miracles of the early Church.
