<p>Travel chapter by chapter through Augustine's masterpiece, as an award-winning professor introduces you to the book's key arguments, as well as the historical context necessary to comprehend The City of God's true power.</p>
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Your Passport to The City of God
- 02: Who Was Augustine of Hippo?
- 03: The Sack of Rome, 410 A.D.
- 04: Augustine's Pagan and Christian Audience
- 05: The Problem of Suffering (Book 1)
- 06: The Price of Empire (Books 2-3)
- 07: Augustine's Political Vision (Book 4)
- 08: Splendid Vices and Happiness in Hope (Book 5)
- 09: Public Religion in Imperial Rome (Books 6-7)
- 10: Who or What Is God? (Books 8-9)
- 11: Sacrifice and Ritual (Book 10)
- 12: Augustine's Critique of Rome (Books 1-10)
- 13: Metaphysics of Creation and Evil (Book 11)
- 14: Fall of the Rebel Angels (Book 12)
- 15: Augustine and Original Sin (Book 13)
- 16: The Two Cities and the Two Loves (Book 14)
- 17: Augustine's Scriptural History (Books 15-17)
- 18: Translating the Imperium (Book 18)
- 19: Happiness and Politics (Book 19)
- 20: Judgments, Last and Otherwise (Book 20)
- 21: Augustine's Vision of Hell (Book 21)
- 22: Heaven: The Self Redeemed (Book 22)
- 23: The City of God as a Single Book
- 24: The City of God's Journey through History
Taught by
Charles Mathewes
