
The City of God
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Narrated by:
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Bernard Mayes
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By:
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Saint Augustine
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wonderful!
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Wonderful work!
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The narrator was perfect and, I could easily imagine that I was listening to St Augustine himself.
This Work is a Blessing to Me
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To the extreme '
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One very smart man!
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Masterpiece of Western Literature but...
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City of God
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What made the experience of listening to The City of God the most enjoyable?
The narrator did a fine job, I thought.What did you like best about this story?
This question doesn't really apply to this work.Which character – as performed by Bernard Mayes – was your favorite?
This question doesn't really apply to this work.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
This would take a couple of decades to properly digest. One could literally listen for just a few moments at any particular section and spend a day or two pondering the implications.Any additional comments?
EnjoyableWorth the purchase
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Well read great timeless classic
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Augustine defends Christianity from its historical critics in this work. That said, he is not fighting classical authors in general, but rather embraces the forerunners of Christianity in Socrates, Plato and the thinking tradition of the West. The reader shouldn't forget that Augustine is arguing for more than the justification of Christianity and the ills it also has inevitably been host to through what he would call the mortal imperfection of its historical representatives, but rather for an evolutionary trajectory for humankind, which Christianity and any and all other edifying faiths and philosophies along the way all inevitably point toward: the birth of a New Man (that is, a new kind of human being, with a new kind of spiritualized thinking), of which Jesus of Nazareth prophesied.
Some caveats are warranted, however. While this is an ample document to the testament of early Christianity's literary depth, Augustine, I'm afraid, is a consummately moralizing commentator on a good bit more than the mere critics of Christianity. In the first sections, he criticizes Lucretia pretty unfairly for killing herself under the duress of being raped and publically shamed by the news. In her time and place, the woman was typically both victim and co-conspirator whenever sexual deviant acts are concerned. The woman is typically considered somehow co-responsible for the rape, if not entirely to blame! Hearers today won't likely be able to receive such an even-tempered sexist critique positively, and for very good reason. Not all that glitters here is gold. Augustine, like other monastics of his milieu, and like the majority of males of his time in Rome, is quite unfeeling toward the plight of women in general, often seeing them as little more than the jealously guarded property of their husbands rather than human beings with their own individual dignity and subjectivity to contend with. He deals in likewise harshness with the suicides, those who kill themselves rather than face their own too-dark night of the soul. For many, this will appear very trite and unexcusably unfeeling toward women, and rightly so.
Augustine's Classic Treatise Defines Christianity
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