City of God
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
City of God
| Author | Saint Augustine |
|---|---|
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Augustine’s answer to the charge that Rome fell because it had abandoned its gods — twenty-two books, written roughly AD 413–426, setting the earthly city against the heavenly one. In making that case he had to say what all of human history is for, which is why it is usually treated as the first full Christian philosophy of history. |
City of God
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Powell’s City of Books, Portland — July 2025 (Books photo album)
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University of Austin — assigned in History, Historiography, and the Philosophy of History on its Fall 2025 reading list, shared by @uaustinorg in November 2025. It is the second text in the list’s longest course, between Sallust’s Catiline’s War and the modern sequence of Collingwood, Becker, Marx, Nietzsche, Löwith, Strauss and Fukuyama — the first text on the syllabus to claim history has a direction. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this was assigned in.
- The University of Austin — the institution whose course list this is.
- St. Augustine — the author.
- Confessions (Augustine) — his other work already in the anti-library.
- Christianity
- History — the course subject.
- Religion
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.