The City of God
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sara Miles
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Published: 2014-05-16
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 184825623X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →City of God is a moving, prophetic account of the divine in daily life. It tells the story of one day in Sara’s ministry: Ash Wednesday, when she carries ashes out of church to public places. Sara explores the profound meanings set loose by touching the forehead of a stranger and paints an unforgettable picture of the search for God all around us.
Author: Paulo Lins
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 155584684X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based. “A Scarface-like urban epic . . . punctuated with lyricism and longing” (Publishers Weekly). City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil’s most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love—but also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. When City of God erupted on screens worldwide, it became one of the most critically and commercially successful foreign films of recent years. But few were aware of the story behind the film. Written by Paulo Lins, who grew up in the favela (shantytown) Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro and who spent years researching its gang history, City of God began life as a coruscating, harrowing novelistic account of twenty years in the illicit pursuits of the youth gangs born from the favela. “With plot devices sometimes as minimal as the dawning of a new day, City of God seems more like a mosaic than a novel, but it’s a mosaic with unforgettably vibrant colors.” —Booklist
Author: James Wetzel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0521199948
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume addresses the complex and conflicted vision in Augustine's City of God, as a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage.
Author: Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0520260627
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'City of God' explores the role of neo-Pentecostal Christian sects in the religious, social & political life of Guatemala. O'Neill examines one such church, looking at how its practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism.
Author: Carolyn Weber
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0830843841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didn't expect to find God there. But she did. As she grappled with her newest and most important relationship, she also found that there was another invitation: to think bigger about love. In this book we follow Weber through courtship and into marriage and parenthood. Now a literature professor, Weber reflects on her relationship with a sometimes-absent father and how that has shaped her. Through her personal story, as well as spiritual, theological, and literary reflection, Sex and the City of God explores what life looks like when we choose to love God first.
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 561
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: Royal Classics
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 1016
ISBN-13: 9781774760789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The City of God is a book of Christian philosophy presenting human history as a conflict between what Augustine calls the Earthly City and the City of God-a conflict that is destined to end in victory for the latter. The City of God is marked by people who forego earthly pleasure to dedicate themselves to the eternal truths of God, now revealed fully in the Christian faith. The Earthly City, on the other hand, consists of people who have immersed themselves in the cares and pleasures of the present, passing world. The City of God was written in response to allegations that Christianity brought about the decline of Rome. It is considered one of Augustine's most important works, standing alongside The Confessions, The Enchiridion, On Christian Doctrine, and On the Trinity. As a work of one of the most influential Church Fathers, The City of God is a cornerstone of Western thought, presenting many profound questions of theology, such as the suffering of the righteous, the existence of evil, the conflict between free will and divine omniscience, and the doctrine of original sin. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The City of God is a monumental work - not just for its scale and structure, but for what it asks of us as readers. In this first lecture, dive into the many layers of this powerful book, surveying why Augustine wrote it, for whom, and what impact it still has on our world today.
Author: Adam Trettel
Publisher: Brill Schoningh
Published: 2018-11-30
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9783506792532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For Augustine, the pre-Fall Paradise was a life of tranquil love and joy. The post-Fall world is marked by loss of control over our bodies and emotions. But whatexactly happened in the Fall, and why? How does desire relate to man's disobedience, and is there any sense in which we can recover what Adam and Eve havelost?In treating City 14 as an integral whole, this study explores Augustine's critiquesof the Manichean and Platonist positions that the body is bad or evil, and discusseshis biblical doctrine of emotions in light of the two-cities theme. The entirestudy concerns topics germane to the paradisal situation: the theme of the PrimalFall and the will being 'spontaneous', the exploration of the disobedience ofthe genitals in all forms of sex, including married life, and the workings of Adamand Eve's hypothetical sexual experience in the pre-Fall world.