Episode 102: An Old Man's Book (Augustine's City of God, Part 2 of 2)
Literature and History
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The City of God
St. Augustine believed that Christians had endured ten central persecutions up until the 420s CE and that a final one was coming. His view of the End of History is rigorously binary as is the book of Revelations. Those like him will enjoy the pleasures of the afterlife and those unlike him will be punished for eternity.
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