DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Books that matter : the City of God / Professor Charles Mathewes.

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2016]

©2016

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Augustine of Hippo's magnum opus The City of God is one of the greatest works of the Western intellectual tradition -- so powerful, in fact, that one could argue all of Christian theology has been a series of footnotes to Augustine. Written during the transition from antiquity to the rise of Christianity, it is one of the key texts in defining our ethical framework into the 21st century. Yet even serious readers can be intimidated by a book that spans over 1,000 pages.

Great courses. Religion (Christianity)

Great courses (DVD). Religion.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. De civitate Dei.

Kingdom of God -- Early works to 1800.

Apologetics -- Early works to 1800.

Filmed lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Educational films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Mathewes, Charles T., 1969- teacher.

Teaching Company, production company.

City of God

Title from disc surface.

Course no. 6941.

Program contains twenty-four lectures; the length of each lecture is: approx. 30 min.

Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-183) in course guidebook.

Lecturer: Professor Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia.

DVD.

In English; closed-captioned.

Disc 1. Your passport to The city of God -- Who was Augustine of Hippo? -- The sack of Rome, 410 A.D. -- Augustine's pagan and Christian audience -- The problem of suffering -- The price of empire -- Disc 2. Augustine's political vision -- Splendid vices and happiness in hope -- Public religion in Imperial Rome -- Who or what is God? -- Sacrifice and ritual -- Augustine's critique of Rome -- Disc 3. Metaphysics of creation and evil -- Fall of the rebel angels -- Augustine and original sin -- The two cities and the two loves -- Augustine's scriptural history -- Translating the Imperium -- Disc 4. Happiness and politics -- Judgments, last and otherwise -- Augustine's vision of hell -- Heaven: the self redeemed -- The City of God as a single book -- The City of God's journey through history.

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