Linear and Participatory History: Augustine's "City of God"
This essay offers an analysis of the structure of Augustine's City of God. Building on Augustine's identification of the five parts of his work (in a letter he wrote to Firmus), I suggest that these five parts show Augustine to be undertaking a transformation of pagan understandings of his...
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2011
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Journal of theological interpretation
Year: 2011, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 175-196 |
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