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Saint Augustine: The City of God, Books XVII–XXII is unavailable, but you can change that!

Perhaps one of the most profound treatises on Christianity and government, the City of God envisions Christianity as a spiritual force, which should preoccupy itself with the heavenly city, New Jerusalem, rather than the earthly municipal and state affairs. The Fathers of the Church Series has divided this ancient classic into three convenient volumes.

fulfilled that she will be able to dispossess him even when he is bound no longer. Just as we have to admit that when iniquity abounds, when the unchained Devil foments his last and greatest persecutions and deceptions, the charity of many, not inscribed in the book of life, will grow frigid and fail, so we must be persuaded that, alongside the good believers which that interval will overtake, there will be others, hitherto outsiders, brought to the faith by God’s helping grace and study of the Scriptural
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