The City of God
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Century IV-V
Magnum opus in 22 books presenting human history as a struggle between two cities: God's and the earthly. Response to the sack of Rome by the Visigoths.
Philosophy of HistoryApologeticsEschatologyPolitical Theology
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