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La Cité de Dieu, volume 3

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La Cité de Dieu 3 Livres XVIII à XXII Quand Rome est mise à sac en 410 après J.-C., les Romains s’interrogent : le christianisme serait-il responsable du déclin de la cité ? Augustin relève le défi de cette interrogation. La force de La Cité de Dieu consiste à proposer un principe pour comprendre des événements inédits. Augustin distingue deux cités : la cité de Dieu et la cité terrestre. Leurs destins ne doivent pas être confondus : le règne du Christ et la domination terrestre ne sont pas la même chose. La paix de Dieu et celle des hommes ne se recouvrent pas. La cité de Dieu est certes présente dans l’Église, et donc dans le monde, mais elle n’y est pas « réalisée ». Elle représente un principe critique par rapport à la cité de la terre. En celle-ci, tout doit être relativisé, même si, dans la perspective du jugement dernier, tout garde une valeur unique. Le chrétien vit dans cette ambiguïté. Les résonances politiques, religieuses, culturelles de La Cité de Dieu ont été immenses dans l’histoire de l’Occident. Traduction du latin de Louis Moreau, revue par Jean-Claude Eslin

368 pages, Paperback

Published May 16, 1994

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Augustine of Hippo

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Early church father and philosopher Saint Augustine served from 396 as the bishop of Hippo in present-day Algeria and through such writings as the autobiographical Confessions in 397 and the voluminous City of God from 413 to 426 profoundly influenced Christianity, argued against Manichaeism and Donatism, and helped to establish the doctrine of original sin.

An Augustinian follows the principles and doctrines of Saint Augustine.

People also know Aurelius Augustinus in English of Regius (Annaba). From the Africa province of the Roman Empire, people generally consider this Latin theologian of the greatest thinkers of all times. He very developed the west. According to Jerome, a contemporary, Augustine renewed "the ancient Faith."

The Neo-Platonism of Plotinus afterward heavily weighed his years. After conversion and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to theology and accommodated a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed in the indispensable grace to human freedom and framed the concept of just war. When the Western Roman Empire started to disintegrate from the material earth, Augustine developed the concept of the distinct Catholic spirituality in a book of the same name. He thought the medieval worldview. Augustine closely identified with the community that worshiped the Trinity. The Catholics and the Anglican communion revere this preeminent doctor. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider his due teaching on salvation and divine grace of the theology of the Reformation. The Eastern Orthodox also consider him. He carries the additional title of blessed. The Orthodox call him "Blessed Augustine" or "Saint Augustine the Blessed."

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