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- W2500502499 abstract "In ad 410 the city of Rome was captured by Alaric and the Visigoths, who entered the city after several sieges, ransacked the main buildings and drove tens of thousands of its citizens into the countryside. Such an event had not occurred for nearly 800 years. Three years later, Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, began to write the bulky manuscript that eventually saw light as The City of God against the Pagans. Augustine's main purpose in writing this book was to rebut the claim that it was the adoption of Christianity that had led to Rome's downfall; had Romans remained loyal to their ancient gods, his opponents argued, they would also have retained the virtues that had made the city such a formidable power in centuries past. But there were many other sub-themes as well, some of them abstrusely theological. The one on which I wish to focus is Augustine's attempt to bring a kind of consolation to those to whom the fall of Rome had come as a devastating blow. No earthly city, Augustine claims, can provide human beings with the goods that really matter to them, even though it can provide for the material needs of the body. What is important above all is to achieve the spiritual state that allows one to participate in the City of God." @default.
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