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Although many studies have been devoted to Augustine's City of God and its most important theme, viz. the antithesis between the civitas Dei and the terrena civitas,until now no consensus has been reached concerning the sources of this doctrine. Was Augustine decisively influenced by Manichaeism, by (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa or Philo, by the Donatist Tyconius? Or should we look in another direction and refer to preceding Christian, Jewish, and especially to archaic Jewish-Christian traditions? Th

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Author

Johannes van Oort

Publisher

E.J. Brill

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004253346

Category

religious

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Christian

Updated

2026-03-25