This book defines a society as a "assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love." In a late section, this book claims that through the suffering of humans, God bears witness to himself, while another section of this work is predictive and goes through each individual coming epoch. This book outlines its author's creed of "faith seeking understanding," and also dismisses the problem of evil by using God's grace as a c
This book defines a society as a "assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love." In a late section, this book claims that through the suffering of humans, God bears witness to himself, while another section of this work is predictive and goes through each individual coming epoch. This book outlines its author's creed of "faith seeking understanding," and also dismisses the problem of evil by using God's grace as a counterexample. The title object of this tract is described as a place of ordered harmony, which displays this book's fundamental Neo-Platonism. For ten points, identify this tract in which Rome is contrasted against the title concept of purity, written by St. Augustine of Hippo.
This book defines a society as a "assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love."
City of God