About the City of God. Augustine A.

Aurelius Augustine - a Christian theologian and a philosopher, an influential preacher, Bishop of the Hippo, one of the fathers of the Christian Church.

The most famous composition of the philosopher and theologian of Aurelius Augustine “On the City of God”, written shortly after the plunder of Rome by the Westgots , consists of two main parts. The first ten books explain the reasons for the inevitable fall of paganism, and the last ten books describe the future triumph of the righteous of God.

Augustine considers the whole history of mankind as the coexistence of two spheres: the highest “City of God” and the sinful “City of the earth”, where One is intended to “forever reign with God”, and the other “be subject to eternal punishment with the devil.”