Stand Alone Pages on 'Musings of an Old Curmudgeon'

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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