Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Cambridge University Press, 9/24/1998
EAN 9780521468435, ISBN10: 0521468434
Paperback, 1278 pages, 21.3 x 13.7 x 5.6 cm
Language: English
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 civilisation. 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 one of the most important single contributions to the Cambridge Texts series yet published, of interest to students of ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought, theology, philosophy, and late antiquity.
Preface
Introduction
A chronology of Augustine's life
Bibliographical note
The City of God against the Pagans
Biographical notes
Index.
'Dyson's wonderfully lucid, carefully literal and historically sensitive translation ... makes this the edition that most readers will now choose to consult ... We must be grateful for this excellent new translation.' The Times Higher Education Supplement