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	The City of God - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The City of God (Latin: De Civitate Dei, also known as De Civitate Dei contra Paganos: The City of God against the Pagans) is a book written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century, dealing with issues concerning God, martyrdom, Jews, and other Christian philosophies.
		The City of God is marked by people who forego earthly pleasure and dedicate their lives to the promotion of Christian values.
		The two cities are not meant to represent any actual places or organisations, though Augustine clearly thought that the Christian Church was at the heart of the City of God.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_City_of_God (443 words)

	City of God by Augustine
		But let this city bear in mind, that among her enemies lie hid those who are destined to be fellow-citizens, that she may not think it a fruitless labor to bear what they inflict as enemies until they become confessors of the faith.
		The City of God we speak of is the same to which testimony is borne by that Scripture, which excels all the writings of all nations by its divine authority, and has brought under its influence all kinds of minds, and this not by a casual intellectual movement, but obviously by an express providential arrangement.
		God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved." From these and similar testimonies, all of which it were tedious to cite, we have learned that there is a city of God, and its Founder has inspired us with a love which makes us covet its citizenship.
	personal.stthomas.edu /gwschlabach/docs/city.htm (8895 words)

	The City of God
		Cities became centers of power and their governments ruled the surrounding areas of land in which they were located.
		God is the greatest of urban planners, and his holy city is designed to accommodate the poor and downtrodden of all nations.
		The city of God is described in Revelation 21:10-23, and those who will occupy it are “the nations of them which are saved,” and these “shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
	www.dawnbible.com /1999/9901-hl.htm (2257 words)

	Augustine, The City of God
		God's help is a "grace" -- that is, it cannot be earned or deserved, but is given gratuitously, and only to "the elect" (chosen), i.e., those to whom God has chosen from eternity (predestined) to give it.
		The city of God is not identical with the Church, since not all members of the Church will be saved.
		Members of both the city of God and the earthly city will be among the citizens of any particular state.
	www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/y6705.html (4431 words)

	Amazon.ca: The City of God: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		City of God is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of a book." --Michael Joseph Gross --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		The City of God is a work for both the scholar and the Christian; it pours light, not only on the struggle between the early Church, but also on the bases of the faith and Augustine's belief's concerning God, man, heaven, hell, angels, law, sexual behaviour, and the practise of the faith.
		Here, in his City, he lays out the difference between the world of faith and the world of mammon, i.e., those who live by worldly standards and those who live as if they were not true citizens of this world but only pilgrims on their way to the great city.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679600876 (1251 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| City of God \| E. L. Doctorow
		City of God opens a vast window on a range of religious, scientific, historic, and aesthetic concerns.
		And like Ulysses, City of God is more than anything a work of skilled mimesis, mirroring in prose the nature of one New York writer’s consciousness and concerns at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
		One critic has written that City of God is a story about storytelling—about the ubiquity of narrative; about the whole of language existing as a storytelling tool to reflect and respond to reality; about consciousness perceived as a narrative (hi)story.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/city_of_god.html (1270 words)

	Augustine: Christianity and Society
		A single divine power, God the father, is the source of all the world of appearances, is the center of the world of the spirit, and is the foundation of all being and goodness.
		On the one hand, the eternal vision of God is the norm against which human notions of time are judged and found wanting; sacramental actions destroy the supremacy of time, while eternal happiness, outside the tunnel of transience, awaits the blessed.
		God created all things, and insofar as they were created by God, they were good; evil, then, is the mere absence of good, not--as the Manicheans claimed--an independent power in itself.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/twayne/aug3.html (8077 words)

	Amazon.com: The City of God (Modern Library Classics): Books: Marcus Dods,Thomas Merton,Saint Augustine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		City of God is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of a book." --Michael Joseph Gross --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		The City of Man has been deceived and debased, fallen under the sway of pagan gods, which appear to be either demons or, at best indifferent or benign spirits that are mistakenly worshipped.
		City of God also shows Augustine to be interested in the goods of Greek and Roman philosophy and rhetoric and in purging the negative elements of these while and Christian revelation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679783199?v=glance (3510 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: City of God, Book I (St. Augustine)
		Yet the city was sacked according to the custom of war; nor do we anywhere read, that even by so chaste and gentle a commander orders were given that no one should be injured who had fled to this or that temple.
		However, the gods he swore by were those who are now supposed to avenge the prohibition of their worship, by inflicting these present calamities on the human race.
		The gods enjoined that games be exhibited in their honor to stay a physical pestilence; their pontiff prohibited the theatre from being constructed, to prevent a moral pestilence.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/120101.htm (11417 words)

	The City of God II
		The naturalistic "God" which came out of the pagan Greco-Roman world and was incorporated by the early Christians into their theology was established by just the reverse argument or process, as we usually think of these matters.
		You might say the city of man is inevitably stuck in the two extremes of radical (amoral, unrestrained) individualism on the one hand or egalitarian (unwise, misguided and unjust) collectivism on the other.
		It is the City of God, or, that is, the society based on true, real or valid concepts of good, truth and right, wisely applied no less.
	www.uptospeedgoforit.com /the_city_of_god_ii.htm (5892 words)

	Augustine, City of God (introduction)
		The notion of writing about the two cities had been already been in A.'s mind;[[11]] circumstances of the years after 410 offered him a witty and polemically effective point of departure and provided the catalyst that allowed the great work to precipitate itself from the creative centers of A.'s mind.
		The error of those who would lament bitterly the fall of a single earthly city of bricks and mortar is the error of those who are unable to distinguish shadow from reality: the sovereign remedy is the intervention of the divine Word of redemption and illumination.
		J.F. O'Grady, 'Priesthood and Sacrifice in "City of God,"' Augustiniana 21(1971) 27-44.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/augustine/civ.html (8661 words)

	City of God Against the Pagans
		He remarks, "that very city of the Athenians, which had publicly condemned him, did publicly bewail him- the popular indignation having turned with such vehemence on his accusers, that one of them perished by the violence of the multitude...." I found this event quite interesting, as a parallel to Jesus.
		That they have a different god for each step in a process, but then sometimes two or three gods, or a god and a higher god, but not one that oversees and orchestrates the process.
		There is a heirarchy of gods, but that does not mean that any of the higher gods are ensuring that the masses of lower gods work together, nor that they are creating any order out of the situation.
	cityogod.blogspot.com (8059 words)

	Psalm 48 - The City of God
		For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
		The theme of the foursquare Holy City housing the foursquare Temple of God is dominant on Spoke 4 of the Bible Wheel and Inner Wheels and Cycles.
		Thus we find God gave the ordinance for the cities of refuge in Numbers (Book 4), whereas they were actually distributed in Joshua (Book 6) after crossing the Jordon.
	www.biblewheel.com /InnerWheels/Psalms/Psalm48.asp (969 words)

	Cidade de Deus (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Trivia: The film was not actually shot in "The City of God" as it was too dangerous.
		City of God is the epitome of a great foreign film.
		All in all, City of God is one the greatest movies of my time and each time i watch it i enjoy it more than the last.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0317248 (505 words)

	Abraham & the City of God, Hebrews 11:8-16
		Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
		God has called us out of the world and told us He has something better for us, but we're still waiting for it, and we must live by faith, as pilgrims.
		This city of promise was the kingdom, the heavenly Jerusalem, fulfilled in the first century according to the prophecies of Jesus and the apostles.
	www.bereanbiblechurch.org /transcripts/hebrews/11_8-16.htm (4527 words)

	The Chalcedon Foundation - Faith for All of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roman city officials met with Alaric and warned him in effect that their big brother could beat him up; meaning, there were armies en route to protect Rome.
		The city officials refused Alaric’s demands, and so he and his Visigoth army enjoyed three days of good old-fashioned barbarian pillaging, plundering, and raping.
		More than any other book of its time or since, The City of God signaled the end of the ancient world and the beginning of that new frontier era now known as the medieval period.
	www.chalcedon.edu /articles/article.php?ArticleID=245 (1994 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Augustine of Hippo: The City of God, excerpts
		He was born Tagaste in North Africa and became bishop of the city of Hippo.
		But the earthly city, which shall not be everlasting (for it will no longer be a city when it has been committed to the extreme penalty), has its good in this world, and rejoices in it with such joy as such things can afford.
		But the things which this city desires cannot justly be said to be evil, for it is itself, in its own kind, better than all other human good.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/aug-city2.html (714 words)

	THE CITY OF GOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saint Aurelius Augustine.Written between 413 and 426 A.D., The City of God is one of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian thought, a book that is vital to the understanding of modern Western society.
		However, by the time the work was finished, the book had taken on a larger theme: a cosmic interpretation of history in terms of the conflict between good (the City of God) and evil (the Earthly City).
		Augustine foresees that through the will of God, the people of the City of God will eventually win immortality, and those in the Earthly City destruction.
	www.catholictreasures.com /cartdescrip/20344.html (147 words)

	Locusts and Wild Honey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Above all pray that God will overpower rebellious hearts as He irresistibly draws the people of Lakeshore to Himself, so that they stand drop jawed, not at the unspeakable devastation wrought by Katrina, but at the wonder of a gracious God who rescues undeserving sinners.
		God acomplished a tremendous amount of work this past week through the sweat of all the teams with us here in Lakeshore.
		God’s gracious hand has allowed me to serve as pastor for the past 12 years.
	elbourne.org /baptist/ofbl_docs/D'Anvers'TheCityofGod,Vol.1.doc (2304 words)

	The city of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Holy is the City of God and bright shining is its light.
		It is this hope that endows the saints with the patience to remain steadfast in the faith and enables them to live holy and pure lives.
		They walk through their lives with a bright vision of the City of God's pearly gates, rejoicing through all suffering and persecutions, knowing that from this earth's dark prison they will soon be released.
	awake.seranates.com /nov/nov30.htm (134 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Film - Adrift in the City of God
		Instead, we are walking through the streets of the real-life Cidade de Deus, or City of God, a housing scheme created in the 1960s that soon became a shanty-town, or favela.
		Indeed, City of God is Brazil’s biggest international success ever and is the country’s most critically acclaimed film of recent years.
		Although 35 members of the City of God cast were recruited from the original group, auditions were soon held in other favelas, which is how Rodrigues and Firmino came on board.
	living.scotsman.com /film.cfm?id=232472004 (2536 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Augustine: on the Two Cities
		And these we also mystically call the two cities, or the two communities of men, of which the one is predestined to reign eternally with God, and the other to suffer eternal punishment with the devil.
		At present, as we have said enough about their origin, whether among the angels, whose numbers we know not, or in the two first human beings, it seems suitable to attempt an account of their career, from the time when our two first parents began to propagate the race until all human generation shall cease.
		Of these two first parents of the human race, then, Cain was the first-born, and he belonged to the city of men; after him was born Abel, who belonged to the city of God.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/aug-city1.html (999 words)

	The City of God For some time
		33:4-5, "For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the the houses of this city,, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah,, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword.
		The houses of this city and the houses of Judah are carnal thoughts.
		Folks, all these promises of God was made before Jesus died and resurrected as Father, and we resurrected with Him, as the NEW JERUSALEM.
	sigler.org /keith/city_of_god.htm (1175 words)

	Amazon.com: The City of God (Modern Library): Books: St. Augustine,Thomas Merton,Marcus Dods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ancient compassions, impious city, thy priesthood, same martyr, wicked shall fall, impure demons, bond maid, most glorious city, theological poets, saith the apostle, common acknowledgment, hear shall live, seventy translators, last persecution, dead shall rise, book xviii, thou shalt rule, bond woman, hath ascended
		Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Lord God, Christ Jesus, Son of God, Holy Ghost, Apostle Paul, Spirit of God, Lord Almighty, Lord Himself, Christ Himself, Numa Pompilius, Marcus Varro, God the Father, Apostle Peter, Lord Christ, Apostle John, New Academy, Old Academy, Apostle James, Aulus Gellius, Tullus Hostilius, Alexander the Great, Book of Samuel, Holy One
		City of God (Classics S.) by Saint, Bishop of Hippo Augustine on 7 pages
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679600876?v=glance (3513 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: City Of God (Cidade De Deus) [2003]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Like cinematic dynamite, City of God lights a fuse under its squalid Brazilian ghetto, and we're a captive audience to its violent explosion.
		The titular favela is home to a seething army of impoverished children who grow, over the film's ambitious 20-year time frame, into cut-throat killers, drug lords and feral survivors.
		In the vortex of this maelstrom is L'il Z (Leandro Firmino da Hora--like most of the cast, a non-professional actor), self-appointed king of the dealers, determined to eliminate all competition at the expense of his corrupted soul.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008W64Q (679 words)

	The City of God - St Augustine - Saint Augustine - Thomas Merton - Palm Reader eBook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western thought.
		Contrasting earthly and heavenly cities -- representing the omnipresent struggle between good and evil -- Augustine explores human history in its relation to all eternity.
		"The City of God is the autobiography of the Church written by the most Catholic of her great saints."
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/104945-ebook.htm (637 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: City of God (St. Augustine)
		BOOK XVII -- THIS BOOK THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF GOD IS TRACED DURING THE PERIOD OF THE KINGS AND PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL TO DAVID, EVEN TO CHRIST; AND THE PROPHECIES WHICH ARE RECORDED IN THE BOOKS OF KINGS, PSALMS, AND THOSE OF SOLOMON, ARE INTERPRETED OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.
		BOOK XIX -- IN THIS BOOK THE END OF THE TWO CITIES, THE EARTHLY AND THE HEAVENLY, IS DISCUSSED.
		BOOK XXII -- THIS BOOK TREATS OF THE END OF THE CITY OF GOD, THAT IS TO SAY, OF THE ETERNAL HAPPINESS OF THE SAINTS; THE FAITH OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY IS ESTABLISHED AND EXPLAINED; AND THE WORK CONCLUDES BY SHOWING HOW THE SAINTS, CLOTHED IN IMMORTAL AND SPIRITUAL BODIES, SHALL BE EMPLOYED.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/1201.htm (1003 words)

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