Civitas Dei

The reference to Augustine is significant - the 4th century theologian-bishop of Hippo articulated a profound Christian scepticism about political power in his work Civitas Dei.

Archive 2009-01-01 Burke's Corner 2009

The reference to Augustine is significant - the 4th century theologian-bishop of Hippo articulated a profound Christian scepticism about political power in his work Civitas Dei.

Virtue, faction and Richard John Neuhaus Burke's Corner 2009

” The Civitas Dei, in its turn, became the sum of attraction for the Western world, though it also showed the same weakness in mechanics that had wrecked the Civitas Romae.

A Dynamic Theory of History (1904) 1918

Very slowly the accretion of these new forces, chemical and mechanical, grew in volume until they acquired sufficient mass to take the place of the old religious science, substituting their attraction for the attractions of the Civitas Dei, but the process remained the same.

A Dynamic Theory of History (1904) 1918

Literally, these two forces seemed to drop from the sky at the precise moment when the Cross on one side and the Crescent on the other, proclaimed the complete triumph of the Civitas Dei.

A Dynamic Theory of History (1904) 1918

In the transcendent view of the Church taken by the latter (Enchir., lvi) the communion of saints, though never so called by him, is a necessity; to the Civitas Dei must needs correspond the unitas caritatis (De unitate eccl., ii), which embraces in an effective union the saints and angels in heaven

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Christian sources, conceived the Universe as _Civitas Dei_, the

The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907

They show also that he had been impressed by the Civitas Dei of Augustine, and had at least dipped into Terence and Horace, Cicero and Tacitus.

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

They show also that he had been impressed by the Civitas Dei of Augustine, and had at least dipped into Terence and Horace, Cicero and Tacitus.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880

Priscian; and, what is more interesting to us, by St Augustine in the fifth and seventh books of his _Civitas Dei_, as the one authoritative work on the subject of the national religion.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879