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 by Augustine
Augustine was inspired to write the book by the contemporary history he saw unfolding around him. Augustine, along with the Christian intelligentsia of Carthage and Numidia, were in touch with a certain aristocrat named Rufius Antonius Volusianus. The opening sentence of the City of God begins the thousand-plus page book as an epistle.
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