NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS

OF

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

EDITED BY

PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK,

IN CONNECTION WITH A NUMBER OF PATRISTIC SCHOLARS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.

EDITOR'S PREFACE

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

CONTENTS OF CITY OF GOD.

BOOK I.

Augustin censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the sack of Rome

by the Goths, to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the gods,

BOOK II.

A review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had

plunged them into corruption and vice,

The external calamities of Rome,

BOOK III.

BOOK IV.

That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the One True God,

BOOK V.

Of fate, freewill, and God's prescience, and of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans,

BOOK VI.

Of Varro's threefold division of theology, and of the inability of the gods to contribute anything to the

happiness of the future life,

BOOK VII.

Of the "select gods" of the civil theology, and that eternal life is not obtained by worshipping them,

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BOOK VIII.

Some account of the Socratic and Platonic philosophy, and a refutation of the doctrine of Apuleius that

the demons should be worshipped as mediators between gods and men,

BOOK IX.

Of those who allege a distinction among demons, some being good and others evil,

Porphyry's doctrine of redemption,

BOOK X.

BOOK XI.

Augustin passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin, progress, and destinies of the earthly

and heavenly cities are discussed.-Speculations regarding the creation of the world,

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