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|  | Title: City of God and On Christian Doctrine
Author: Augustine
Publisher: CCEL
Description: City of God: Augustine wrote the treatise to explain Christianity's relationship with competing religions and philosophies, and to the Roman government with which it was increasingly intertwined. Despite Christianity's designation as the official religion of the empire, Augustine declared its message to be spiritual rather than political. Christianity, he argued, should be concerned with the mystical, heavenly city the New Jerusalem — rather than with earthly politics. On Christian Doctrine: consists of four books that describe how to interpret and teach the Scriptures. Augustine set three tasks on Christian teachers and preachers: to discover the truth in the contents of the Scriptures, to teach the truth from the Scriptures, and to defend scriptural truth when it was attacked.
Subject: Theology|General
Type: Book Pages: 1044 Filesize:
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