Download or read book Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans written by Augustine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is an important contribution of interest to students of theology, philosophy, ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought and late antiquity.