"Confession and City of God" Augustine had no system in confession--but he did have a stable and coherent Christian outlook. Moreover, he had an unwearied, ardent concern: man's salvation from his hopeless plight, through the gracious action of God's redeeming love. To understand and interpret this was his one endeavor, and to this task he devoted his entire genius. The City of God is the masterpiece of the greatest genius among the Latin Fathers, and the best known and most read of his works, except the confessions. It embodies the results of thirteen years of intellectual labor and study from A.D. 413-426. It is a vindication of Christianity against the attacks of the heathen in view of the sacking of the city of Rome by the barbarians, at a time when the old Graeco-Roman civilization was approaching its downfall, and a new Christian civilization was beginning to rise on its ruins. It is the first at...
