The Essential City of God

Augustine is the most influential thinker of Western Christianity, and  City of God  is arguably his greatest work. After the sack of Rome in 410, many Romans despaired about the future of the empire. Critics of Christianity blamed the devastation on the empire's conversion to the faith. City of God is Augustine's monumental response to these challenges, developed through analysis of Roman society, engagement with classical philosophy, and extended commentary on Scripture. These sprawl