Top Highlights

• The "City of God" is the masterpiece of the greatest genius among the Latin Fathers, and the best known and most read of his works, except the "Confessions.
• It is a vindication of Christianity against the attacks of the heathen in view of the sacking of the city of Rome by the barbarians, at a time when the old Graeco-Roman civilization was approaching its downfall,
• It is the first attempt at a philosophy of history, under the aspect of two rival cities or communities,--the eternal city of God and the perishing city of the world.
• This was the only philosophy of history known throughout Europe during the middle ages;
• officially endorsed, as it were, by the scholarly Pope Leo XIII.