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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 43152
Lecture
St Paul: Summit Classroom Building 101
In August, 410AD, the unthinkable happened. The ancient city of Rome, historic capital of the Roman empire, was sacked by barbarian troops. Many pagans blamed Christians for the catastrophe, on the grounds that the recently empowered Church encouraged the legal prohibition of public worship of the gods who traditionally had protected Rome from just such a disaster. In response to this charge, St. Augustine of Hippo took up his pen and, over a thirteen year time-span, composed what would become, after the Bible itself, one of the most important books in the history of the Christian theological tradition: The City of God Against the Pagans. By the time he finished writing, Augustine’s “great and arduous work” had grown into a comprehensive assault on the entirety of pagan Roman thought and culture, and a timeless work of Christian apologetics, masterfully interweaving Scripture and Platonic philosophy. This course will guide students through the entirety of this classic text, with special attention given to the historical, political, and theological questions that the City of God continues to provoke today, almost 1600 years after it was written.
4 Credits