The Two Cities
Augustine believed that the Founder of the city of God has inspired us with this attribute that makes us covet citizenship.
What is love?
Augustine says that to comprehend the truth one must be prepared to listen with this rather than with the body.
What is the mind?
Augustine believed that this was created along with the world.
What is time?
In Book I Augustine argues that this city itself, the mother of Rome, was unable to defend itself with its reliance on its gods.
What is Troy?
Augustine tells us that two cities were originally formed by the separation of these.
What are good and bad angels?
According to Augustine, these are not ordinary men.
What are philosophers?
This heresy denied the divinity of Jesus.
What is Arianism?
Again in Book I Augustine tells us that all the pillaging that took place in the sacking of Rome was according to this.
What is the custom of war?
In Book XII Augustine tells us that the tendencies in good and bad angels does not come from their nature and origin, since God created both, but from this.
What are their wills and desires?
The Greek word for philosopher means lover of this.
What is wisdom?
In Book V Augustine argues that there is no contradiction between God's prescience, or foreknowledge, and this.
What is man's free will?
In discussing such evils as rape, Augustine says that the sanctity of this remains even when the body is violated.
What is the soul?
Augustine says that the citizens of the earthly city prefer this to the Founder of the holy city.
What are their own gods?
According to Augustine, this philosopher was made the speaker in all of Plato's dialogues.
Who was Socrates?
In Book XI Augustine argues that the devil was not created by God with this.
What is a sinful nature?
Augustine charged Rome itself with responsibility for the invasion of the city, stating that unscrupulous ambition was the result of the nation corrupted by avarice and luxury, both of which come from this condition.
What is prosperity?