Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide

Gerard O'Daly

Oxford University Press, 26 באוג׳ 2020 - 384 עמודים

The most influential of Augustine's works, City of God played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West.

Augustine wrote City of God in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, at a time of rapid Christianization across the Roman Empire. Gerard O'Daly's book remains the most comprehensive modern guide in any language to this seminal work of European literature.

In this new and extensively revised edition, O'Daly 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. He explores the many themes of City of God, which include cosmology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, and biblical interpretation. This guide, therefore, is about a single literary masterpiece, yet at the same time it surveys Augustine's developing views through the whole range of his thought. 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.

תוכן

• Cities Real and Desired: 1
• The Making of the Book: 28
• The Apologetic Tradition: 42
• The Theme of the Two Cities: 57
• The Structure of the City of God and a Summary of its Contents: 72
• Where Were the Gods? Books 15: 96
• Varro Platonists and Demons Books 610: 124
• Creation the Fall and the Regime of the Passions Books 1114: 164
• The History of the Two Cities Books 1518: 189
• Final Destinations Books 1922: 225
• Influences and Sources: 266
• The Place of the City of God in Augustines Writings: 298
• The Title De Civitate Dei: 307
• Manuscripts Editions and Reception: 309
• Breviculus Capitula and Canon: 311
• The Chronology in City 18 54: 313
• Bibliography: 315
• Index Locorum: 347
• General Index: 355

מידע על המחבר

Gerard O'Daly, Emeritus Professor of Latin, University College London

Gerard O'Daly read Classics at University College Dublin and has a doctorate in Plotinus from Berne University, Switzerland. Now retired, Gerard O'Daly has taught at the Universities of Lancaster, W rzburg, and Nottingham. He is a former Professor of Latin at University College London and former Dean of its Faculty of Arts and Humanities. His research focuses on philosophy and literature in the Roman Empire between AD 200 and 500.

מידע ביבליוגרפי

• כותרת: Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide
• מאת: Gerard O'Daly
• מהדורה: 2
• הוצאה: Oxford University Press, 2020
• ISBN: 0198841248, 9780198841241
• אורך: 384 עמודים