Augustine of Hippo's twenty-two book work written in response to Rome's sack in 410, arguing that history is the struggle between the City of God (love of God) and the City of Man (love of self), and that Christian faith does not depend on Roman political success.
The two cities are not geographically separate but intermingled in history; the earthly city has its own limited justice which Christians may use; the heavenly city is the pilgrim community whose true home is beyond history.
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