22 books · 426 C.E.
City of God 1 2
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 5 1
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 8 1
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 10 1
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 11 5
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 12 6
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 13 4
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 14 4
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 15 2
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 16 5
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 17 3
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 18 7
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 19 4
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 20 2
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 21 6
On the City of God Against the PagansCity of God 22 2
On the City of God Against the PagansThe City of God in twenty-two books had its origin in painful questions about divine providence and protection in ‘Christian times’ after the sack of Rome in August 410 by Alaric and his Gothic army. The work as a whole is a defence of Christianity against pagan charges that abandonment of the old gods had brought celestial anger, so that the Church was responsible for the political and economic disasters. Augustine first demonstrates from Roman history that the cult of the gods had not brought prosperity, and from the Platonic philosophers that polytheism had not helped anyone to eternal life.
Henry Chadwick, “Augustine,” in The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature, ed. Frances Young, Lewis Ayres, and Andrew Louth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 337.
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