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The City of God, Volume I

by of Hippo Augustine (354–430)

16 chapters, about 218,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. EDITOR'S PREFACE. 3,200 words
2. PREFACE, EXPLAINING HIS DESIGN IN UNDERTAKING THIS WORK. 17,600 words
3. ARGUMENT. 16,300 words
4. ARGUMENT. 16,300 words
5. ARGUMENT. 16,500 words
6. ARGUMENT. 100 words
7. PREFACE. 19,500 words
8. PREFACE. 11,400 words
9. PREFACE. 17,600 words
10. ARGUMENT. 18,500 words
11. ARGUMENT. 10,900 words
12. ARGUMENT. 21,000 words
13. ARGUMENT. 18,000 words
14. ARGUMENT. 16,100 words
15. ARGUMENT. 15,000 words
16. SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS. 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Adam
• Allah
• Angel
• Compassion
• Death
• Divine providence
• Future
• God
• Goddess
• Incorporeality
• Martyr
• Mercury (planet)
• Original sin
• Ousia
• Paganism
• Predestination
• Rebirth (Buddhism)
• Religious education
• Sacrifice
• Summum bonum
• Tertullian
• Theology
• Transcendence (religion)
• Trinity
• Vice
• Wisdom

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