30 September 2019
Word of the Day: City of God
CITY OF GOD. A celebrated work by St. Augustine (354-430) and the most
complete defense of Christianity against paganism in the early Church. Repeated
disasters in the Roman Empire were blamed on Christianity. Augustine showed
that the opposite was true. It was not Christianity but the immorality of paganism
that was responsible for the disintegration. The theme of the book, published
in 427, is that the natural unity of the human race was broken by the fall of
Adam. Since then mankind is divided everywhere between the inhabitants of two
cities: the City of the Devil (Civitas Diaboli) peopled by those who
love self even to the contempt of God, and the City of God (Civitas Dei),
inhabited by those who love God even to the contempt of self.
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