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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The City of God
is a book written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th
century, dealing with issues concerning God, martyrdom, Jews, and other
aspects of Christian philosophy. The City of God is one of Augustine's
major works, a designation that includes The Confessions, On Christian
Doctrine, and On the Trinity. Augustine is the most influential Father
of the Church in the West and through Western Christianity The City of
God profoundly shaped Western civilization. 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. It was written soon after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths
in 410. This event left Romans in a deep state of shock, and many saw it
as punishment for abandoning their Roman religion. It was in this
atmosphere that Augustine set out to console Christians, writing that,
even if the earthly rule of the empire was imperiled, it was the City of
God that would ultimately triumph - Augustine's eyes were fixed on
Heaven, a theme of many Christian works of Late Antiquity.
