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No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than\u00a0City of God<\/i>. Since medieval Europe was the cradle of today\u2019s Western civilization, this work by consequence is vital for understanding our world and how it came into being.<\/p>\n

Saint Augustine is often regarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and City of God\u00a0<\/i>is his masterpiece, a cast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldliness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a cosmic interpretation\u00a0of in terms of the struggle between good and evilL the City of God in conflict with the Earthly City or the City of the Devil. This, the first serious attempt at a philosophy of history, was to have incalculable influence in forming the Western mind on the relations of church and state, and on the Christian\u2019s place in the temporal order.<\/p>\n

The original\u00a0City of God<\/i> contained twenty-two books and fills three regular-sized volumes. This edition has been skillfully abridged for the intelligent general reader by Vernon J. Bourke, author of Augustine\u2019s Quest for Wisdom<\/i>, making the heart of this monumental work available to a wide audience.<\/p>\n

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