Episode 101: Against the Pagans (Augustine's City of God, Part 1 of 2)
Literature and History
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The City of God
The city of God was Augustine's attempt to explain why the Roman Empire had begun falling. He wanted to prove that his own faction of Christianity was not just another flawed product of human culture, but instead part of a divine plan. The opening ten books are where Augustine engages with pagan ideology in detail.
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