Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, Volume II St. Augustine: City of God, Christian DoctrinePhilip Schaff "The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD marked the beginning of a new era in Christianity. For the first time, doctrines were organized into a single creed. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers did most of their writing during and after this important event in Church history. Unlike the previous era of Christian writing, the Nicene and Post-Nicene era is dominated by a few very important and prolific writers. In Volume II of the 14-volume collected writings of the Nicenes and Post-Nicenes (first published between 1886 and 1889), readers will discover one of Augustines masterworks: City of God. In this groundbreaking work, Augustine proposes a philosophy that sees history as having a purpose and direction. Coming at a time when Roman civilization was failing, this work argued that Romans could find comfort in Christianity because all of history was merely a struggle between the City of God (believers) and the City of Man (nonbelievers). Should Romans put their faith in the City of God, even their declining civilization should cause them no grief. Even though it was written at a very particular time in history, City of God appeals to all Christians seeking inspiration to continue their religious practice." |
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... thought , " he writes in a letter to me of Nov. 23 , 1886 , that “ the book could not fail to be improved by passing under your own supervision . In editing it for Clark's Series , I translated the greater part of it with my own hand ...
... thought , " he writes in a letter to me of Nov. 23 , 1886 , that “ the book could not fail to be improved by passing under your own supervision . In editing it for Clark's Series , I translated the greater part of it with my own hand ...
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... thoughts , but also a compendious exhi- bition of the ideas which most powerfully influenced the life at that age . It ... thought so ab- stract expressed in language so popular . He handles metaphysical problems with the unembarrassed ...
... thoughts , but also a compendious exhi- bition of the ideas which most powerfully influenced the life at that age . It ... thought so ab- stract expressed in language so popular . He handles metaphysical problems with the unembarrassed ...
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... thought of this , repent of their wickedness and reform , some , as the apostle says , " despising the riches of His goodness and long - suffering , after their hardness and impenitent heart , the statues of the gods , which had been ...
... thought of this , repent of their wickedness and reform , some , as the apostle says , " despising the riches of His goodness and long - suffering , after their hardness and impenitent heart , the statues of the gods , which had been ...
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... thought of their own safety and good name , them , either because we shrink from the and abstain from finding fault with the wicked , labor or are ashamed to offend them , or be- because they fear their wiles and violence . cause we ...
... thought of their own safety and good name , them , either because we shrink from the and abstain from finding fault with the wicked , labor or are ashamed to offend them , or be- because they fear their wiles and violence . cause we ...
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... thought death alone husband Collatinus , and to Brutus her kins- could expiate her sin ? Even though this man , men of high rank and full of courage , hand from suicide , if she could with her false were the case , she ought still to ...
... thought death alone husband Collatinus , and to Brutus her kins- could expiate her sin ? Even though this man , men of high rank and full of courage , hand from suicide , if she could with her false were the case , she ought still to ...
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