The City of God

The City of God

Augustine's monumental work of Christian philosophy contrasts the culture of pagan Rome with his vision of the "Heavenly Jerusalem" of scripture.
Sign up to use

Reviews

Photo of Sean Wilson
Sean Wilson@seantwilson
5 stars
Mar 25, 2024

Glorious. The most striking thing reading it this time was how buzzed Augustine was about "the present time" of the interadvental period. This isn't just a kind of "in the meantime" time, but in many ways fulfils what the psalms and the prophets foretold: the worship of demons would be driven out from the world by the city of God, and the whole world would sing a new song to the Lord. Notwithstanding the smack talk Augustine sometimes gets for his allegory, I thought it was generally very good. He is very good at hearing things rhyme with each other, for example, that Cain the firstborn and Abel the secondborn correspond to the first "earthy" man and the second "heavenly" man of 1 Cor. 15, and in turn to the earthly and heavenly cities which set their hopes on those respective ends.

Photo of Luke Stamps
Luke Stamps@lukestamps
5 stars
Jun 20, 2023
Photo of Aaron McCollough
Aaron McCollough@rondollah
5 stars
Jan 9, 2023
Photo of pam a lamb
pam a lamb@alambnamedpam
2 stars
Oct 28, 2021

This book appears on the shelf Fantasy

The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Piranesi
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
These Violent Delights
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
The Midnight Library
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Tea Dragon Society
The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill
If It Bleeds
If It Bleeds by Stephen King

This book appears on the shelf Book list 9gr

Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Two Towers
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
David Copperfield
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale
Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Little Women
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

This book appears on the shelf lit-fiction

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Power
The Power by Naomi Alderman
American Gods
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro