The Political Aspects Of S. Augustin's 'city. Part 02 : BIBLIOGRAPHY THE LITERATURE OF THE 'DE CIVITATE DEI' BERNHARD DOMBART has an interesting posthumous paper on the text. It is printed in Harnack & Gebhardt's 'Texte und Untersuchungen,' 1908, with the title: 'Zur Textgeschichte der Civitas Dei.' (Dombart having died before the publication, it w...
The Political Aspects Of S. Augustin's 'city. Part 06 : III THE STATE IN trying to comprehend S. Augustine's thought about the State, we must avoid one error, that of translating "Civitas "by State. His thought, as I said, is eminently social. He thinks of good and bad as gathered into two societies. Only at the last judgment will the Civitas terrena be...
The Political Aspects Of S. Augustin's 'city. Part 07 : II THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY HAD S. Augustine a philosophy of history? If so, what is it, and what is its value? These are the questions to which I seek the answer to-day. Here is a paragraph pertinent enough from Archdeacon Cunningham's Hulsean Lectures on 'S. Austin and his Place in the History...
The Political Aspects Of S. Augustin's 'city. Part 03 : VI THE 'DE CIVITATE DEI' IN LATER DAYS THE medival unity was the grandest attempt in human history to base the structure of institutions upon righteousness, political, social and economic, no less than religious. When this unity broke up, a new world--as Luther said--came into being. It might seem...
The Political Aspects Of S. Augustin's 'city. Part 09 : PREFACE the delivery of these lectures was one of the last pieces of work that Neville Figgis was allowed to carry through. He prepared them for the press, leaving them in the form of lectures and preserving here and there the impress which the anxiety of war-crisis made upon them. In that form...
The Political Aspects Of S. Augustin's 'city. Part 05 : IV THE CHURCH WHAT then is S. Augustine's view of the place of the Church in relation to civil society? This is part of the topic of the last lecture. Only to-day we look at the matter from a different angle. Here too, a "caveat "must be entered. We must beware of treating anything said...
The Political Aspects Of S. Augustin's 'city : APPENDIX THE following passages from Vives may interest the reader: (II, 7.) 'Thus farre Lucian. We have rehearsed it in the words of Thomas Moore, whom to praise negligently, or as if one were otherwise imployed, were grossnes. His due commendations are sufficient to exceed great volumes. For wh...
Untitled : THE POLITICAL ASPECTS OF S. AUGUSTINE'S 'CITY OF GOD' BY JOHN NEVILLE FIGGIS [1921] Title Page Preface General Scope of the 'De Civitate Dei' The Philosophy of History The State The Church The 'De Civitate Dei' in the Middle Ages The 'De Civitate Dei' in Later Days Bibliography Appendix
Title Page : THE POLITICAL ASPECTS OF S. AUGUSTINE'S 'CITY OF GOD' BY JOHN NEVILLE FIGGIS, LITT.D. LATE OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RESURRECTION COPYRIGHT, 1921 LONGMANS, GREEN & COMPANY
The Political Aspects Of S. Augustin's 'city. Part 08 : I GENERAL SCOPE OF THE 'DE CIVITATE DEI' 'As Man amongst creatures and the Church amongst men and the Fathers in the Church, and S. Augustine amongst the Fathers, so amongst the many pretious volumes and in the rich storehouse of his workes, his bookes of the City of God have a speciall...
The Political Aspects Of S. Augustin's 'city. Part 04 : V THE 'DE CIVITATE DEI' IN THE MIDDLE AGES SO far we have been trying to find out what S. Augustine meant to himself. In these two closing lectures I want to consider what later ages have made of him. This is not easy. Students, and students alone, have sufficient data for a judgment concerning...
