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Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide

1 review
Gerard O'Daly

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

A Masterful Survey of Augustine's Magnum Opus
O Daly's masterful survey of Augustine's colossal work, the City of God, is in itself the foremost study of its kind, covering as it does the twenty-two books of the City of God, with a fine cornucopia of scholarly and insightful analyses, summaries and sweeping commentary. Principle themes to the City of God are highlighted and the profound wealth of philosophical, theological, historical, ...

The Mystical City Of God: The Divine History and Life of the Virgin Mother of God

2 reviews

Tan Books & Pub, 2006

A Masterpiece of Marian Spirituality.
This set of books offers very specific instructions for every Christian and Catholic alike on how the spiritual world works. How to battle the enemy of souls. How to get to heaven. All given in precise details by Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven, the Blessed Virgin Mary as our Chief Instructor. I had the original antique 4 volumes and am delighted that these very important and valuable books are ...

The Mystical City of God: A Popular Abridgement of the Divine History and Life of the Virgin Mother of God

12 reviews
Mary of Agreda

Tan Books, 1978

Amazing
This is a truly beautiful book, providing background details on the life of the Holy Virgin Mary and the creation of the universe. The most amazing part about this book is that the details make so much sense and are so logical, yet are so intricate and colorful, that it is impossible to think of it as a work of fiction by a devout nun. I have not yet completed the book, but when you read enough ...

City of God (Penguin Classics)

38 reviews
Augustine of Hippo

Penguin Classics, 2004

Tough going, but worth it
It took me about five months of off-and-on reading to slog through City of God--it was time well-spent. Here is one of the rare 1000-page books that not only deserved its length, but could have been longer. What astounded me about reading St. Augustine was how relevant he is, even after 1600 years. The vast majority of what he discusses throughout this monumental book still matters--only the ...

City of God

86 reviews
E. L. Doctorow

Plume, 2001

A good novel as well as a lovely piece of writing
I enjoy EL Doctorow's work, so it was with pleasurable anticipation that I picked up City of God and was astonished at what a beautiful book he had wrought. You should, when approaching this book, be aware that the narrative is experimental and postmodern. (It certainly fits every definition of postmodernism that I've ever read, including that in my favorite reference, Teaching the ...

Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape (Religion in North America)

Indiana University Press, 1999

"At last, a major dissection of the great mystery in modern American life--how religion and spirituality prospered amidst industrialization, urbanization, and rampant technological change after 1880!" --Jon Butler, Yale University "Urban religion" strikes many as an oxymoron. How can religion prosper in the alienated, secular, fast-paced, and materialistic world of the modern, Western city? The authors in this collection believe that cities ...

Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

2 reviews
Augustine

Cambridge University Press, 1998

Should be the new standard
It is hard to find recent work on De Civitate Dei in English that does not use this newest edition and translation of probably Augustine's most influential work (if not his most readable). I am convinced that this will be the translation that will be used for the foreseeable future. An excellent rendering of the Latin original, wonderful introduction and copious notes. So clear and precise is ...

City of God: A Novel

6 reviews
Paulo Lins

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2006

My Favorite Movie
City of God is among the best movies I've ever seen in my life. Even if you're not a huge fan of foreign films, this movie will still grip you. The narrator of the movie is Buscapé (Rocket), a boy who grows up in the City of God, Rio de Janiero's most notorious favela. Also growing up with him is Dadinho (Lil Dice), who looks up to the hoodlums of the favela and aspires to one day be the most ...

City of God, City of Satan

3 reviews
Robert C. Linthicum

Zondervan, 1991

The Textbook of Urban Ministry
This book should be a must read for every person interested in urban ministry. The title of the book comes from the author's premise that every city includes elements of "Babylon"--"a city totally given over to evil and to the Evil One" and "Jerusalem"--"an idealized city...belonging to God,--a city of peace." What impressed me most about the book is that Bob has spent an hour a day for the past ...

Mystical City of God. Volume I: The Conception

AMI Press, 1996

Subtitle reads as follows: The Miracle of His Omnipotence and the Abyss of His Grace; the Divine History and Life of the Virgin Mother of God, Our Queen and Our Lady, Most Holy Mary, Expiatrix of the Fault of Eve and Mediatrix of Grace, Manifested in These Later Ages by That Lady to Her Handmaid, Sister Mary of Jesus.

Encounter God in the City: Onramps to Personal And Community Transformation

1 review
Randy White

InterVarsity Press, 2006

Compelling! White is a story teller
Randy White is an amazing story teller ... and he has lots of stories to tell. As a "relocator" moving from suburban affluence to inner city poverty, White talks eloquently about the power of the city to teach us - about ourselves, about others and about God. What's more, he examines in some detail not only how you might draw personal lessons from urban America, but how those in ministry can ...

Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome

10 reviews
Rodney Stark

HarperOne, 2007

Another grand effort by a leading, perhaps the leading, historian of early Christianity
I am not a Christian, but I am interested in the history of Christianity. Rodney Stark, I've concluded, is probably the leading historian of Christianity and, best of all, he doesn't defend, proselytize. mythologize - he simply describes the history. And, surprisingly, according to Stark, the history of Christianity is a more positive force than many historians want to give it credit for. ...

Trojan Horse in the City of God: The Catholic Crisis Explained

1 review
Dietrich Von Hildebrand

Sophia Institute Press, 1993

Warnings about the impending Crisis, which has now arrived.
Dietrich von Hildebrand is perhaps the greatest Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century. This book written shortly after the conclusion of the Vatican II Council was a prophetic warning on the undermining of the Church from within. It is amazing now, over thirty years later; almost everything the author warned us about has come to pass. Even the official Vatican newspaper in 1970 urged all ...

Taking Our Cities for God: How to Break Spiritual Strongholds

3 reviews
John Dawson

Charisma House, 2001

Taking Our Cities for God
While curiosity about the occult and the supernatural pervades our society, the devil's best defense has been the successful delusion of mankind into thinking that the kingdom of darkness does not really exist. Consequently, there is a widespread ignorance about the evil power, even among Christians. Many churches that preach the existence of Satan and demons do not acknowledge that people need ...

City of God the Incarnation the Divine History and Life of the Virgin Mother of God

Ave Maria Institute, 1971

Much of the information contained in the city of God Cane to Mary of Agreda Directly from the Queen of Heaven, Some of it from the Holy Angels, and part of it immediately from God. All of it partakes of that intellectual and Abstractive character which absolutely excludes imaginary and visionary illusions.

Foundations of God's City: Christians in a Crumbling Culture

1 review
James Montgomery Boice

InterVarsity Press, 1996

cultural responsibility...very good!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this work! Though I read it in it's previous edition under the title "Two Cities, Two Loves," Boice handles the idea of Christians in culture very well, and with a good exegesis. I wish all Christians would take what Boice has to say seriously, and consider the implications!

St. Augustine: City of God

1 review
Saint Augustine

Image Books, 1958

Truth for the daring soul
City of God discloses a deep interpretation of good and evil for those brave enough to go there. Saint Augustine, one of the greatest spiritual Fathers of the Church places our spiritual existance on a "plane of reality" placed below the being of God but above the "transitory natures of bodies." Thus, every minute and single action we take either turns us "upward to God" or "downward toward ...

Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325

3 reviews
Augustine Thompson

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006

A Distinquised Medieval's Review of this Book
William M. Bowsky in "History: Review of New Books" 33.4 This brilliant, innovative, challenging, and often surprising book lays out every conceiveable aspect of the religious lives of citizens of the medieval Italian commune. It is also a fascinating exposition of the unexpected ways in which civic communes of central and northern Italy from the late twelfth to the early fourteenth century ...

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