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Augustine's City of God : a reader's guide / Gerard O'Daly.

By: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: Second editionDescription: xvii, 360 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780198841241
  • 0198841248
Subject(s): Summary: "The City of God, written in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, is the most influential of Augustine's works, having played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. Gerald O'Daly's book remains the most comprehensive modern guide to it in any language. This new and extensively revised edition takes into account the abundant scholarship on Augustine in the twenty years since its first publication, while retaining the book's focus on Augustine as a writer in the Latin tradition. O'Daly explores the many themes of City of God, which include cosmology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, biblical interpretation and apocalyptic themes. As well as a running commentary on each part of the work, O'Daly provides chapters on the themes of the work, a bibliographical guide to research on its reception, translations of any Greek and Latin texts discussed, and detailed suggestions for further reading"--Page 4 of cover.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Main Collection John Kinder Theological Library BR65.A65 ODA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A42357359

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-345) and indexes.

"The City of God, written in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, is the most influential of Augustine's works, having played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. Gerald O'Daly's book remains the most comprehensive modern guide to it in any language. This new and extensively revised edition takes into account the abundant scholarship on Augustine in the twenty years since its first publication, while retaining the book's focus on Augustine as a writer in the Latin tradition. O'Daly explores the many themes of City of God, which include cosmology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, biblical interpretation and apocalyptic themes. As well as a running commentary on each part of the work, O'Daly provides chapters on the themes of the work, a bibliographical guide to research on its reception, translations of any Greek and Latin texts discussed, and detailed suggestions for further reading"--Page 4 of cover.

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