Augustine's City of God: A Critical Guide

Abstract

Introduction James Wetzel 1. The history of the book: Augustine's City of God and post-Roman cultural memory Mark Vessey 2. Secularity and the saeculum Paul J. Griffiths 3. Augustine's dystopia Peter Iver Kaufman 4. From rape to resurrection: sin, sexual difference, and politics Margaret R. Miles 5. Ideology and solidarity in Augustine's City of God John Cavadini 6. The theatre of the virtues: Augustine's critique of Pagan mimesis Jennifer Herdt 7. The psychology of compassion: Stoicism in City of God 9.5 Sarah Byers 8. Augustine's rejection of eudaimonism Nicholas Wolterstorff 9. Augustine on the origin of evil: myth and metaphysics James Wetzel 10. Hell and the dilemmas of intractable alienation John Bowlin 11. On the nature and worth of Christian philosophy: evidence from the City of God John Rist 12. Reinventing Augustine's ethics: the afterlife of City of God Bonnie Kent.

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