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Saint Augustine is often regarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and City of God <\/i>is his masterpiece, a cast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian other worldliness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n
Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a cosmic interpretation of in terms of the struggle between good and evil the City of God in conflict with the Earthly City or the City of the Devil.<\/p>\n
This, the first serious attempt at a philosophy of history, was to have incalculable influence in forming the Western mind on the relations of church and state, and on the Christian\u2019s place in the temporal order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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