Books that matter: the City of God

Your passport to The city of God

Who was Augustine of Hippo?

The sack of Rome, 410 A.D.

Augustine's pagan and Christian audience

The problem of suffering

The price of empire

Augustine's political vision

Splendid vices and happiness in hope

Public religion in Imperial Rome

Who or what is God?

Sacrifice and ritual

Augustine's critique of Rome

Metaphysics of creation and evil

Fall of the rebel angels

Augustine and original sin

The two cities and the two loves

Augustine's scriptural history

Happiness and politics

Judgments, last and otherwise

Augustine's vision of hell

Heaven: the self redeemed

The City of God as a single book

The City of God's journey through history.