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   The City of God. Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 426. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.

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   The Stories. Indulgences. The first story is told from a perspective of a boy whose grandfather died and describes his visit to his home and then funeral. When he and his mother arrive there, they are met with the grandfather's caretaker, a young woman named Evelyn.

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   What does Augustine say about the city of God?

   • Augustine’s City of God stands as a rebuttal to this line of thinking, demonstrating the fallacies inherent in Roman polytheism and arguing for the rational consistency and doctrinal beauty of the Christian tradition. City of God is composed of 22 books arranged in two parts (Part 1 being Books 1-10, and Part 2 being Books 11-22).

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   When did Augustine start tracing the city of God?

   • In Book 16 Augustine traces the history of the two cities—of God and man—from the period of the great flood to Abraham's... Read More Augustine continues his story of the City of God in Book 17, from the prophet Samuel (fl. c. 1,100–c. 1,001 BCE) to the ... Read More Book 18 returns to tracing the earthly city through history.

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   What is the origin of the two cities in the Bible?

   • Accordingly, the first four of the last twelve books contain the origin of the two cities, one of which is of God, the other of this world; the second four give their extension, or projection; but the third, also the last, gives their appropriate end.

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   My Summary of The City of God. Books 1-10: Refuting those who blame the decline of the Roman empire on the Christian religion, and its prohibition of sacrifice to many gods . Books 1-5: Refuting the common folk: those who believe that the worship of many gods is necessary to secure temporal prosperity.

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   Find summaries for every chapter, including a The City of God Chapter Summary Chart to help you understand the book.

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   The City of God Book 1 Summary. Chapter. English Translation. Latin Title. 1. About the adversaries of the name of Christ, whom, during the devastation of the City, the barbarians spared on account of Christ. De adversariis nominis Christi, quibus in vastatione Urbis propter Christum barbari pepercerunt. 2.

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   Key Takeaways. Book 18 returns to tracing the earthly city through history. Augustine notes that human society "is largely at odds with itself," and whenever one part gets power, it oppresses another part (Chapter 2). Two groups that emerged as especially victorious were the Assyrians and the Romans.

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   The City of God | Book 19 | Summary. Share. Key Takeaways. The end of the two cities—the supreme good and the supreme evil—is the subject of Book 19. Augustine first addresses "the arguments by which mortals have tried to contrive happiness for themselves in the midst of all the unhappiness of this life" (Chapter 1).