This book provides a new introduction to Augustine's "City of God" and his doctrine of the two cities, sources of this doctrine in Manichaeism, (Neo)Platonism and the pre- Augustinian Jewish and Jewis
Augustine and Manichaean Christianity offers groundbreaking discussions of Augustine’s enduring relation with Manichaeism, disclosing the essential background of writings such as Confessiones, De ordi
Originally (1986) a doctoral thesis at the U. of Utrecht, thoroughly reviews the early Christian writer's life, his City of God , and especially his doctrine of two antithetical cities; surveys the p
Six of the 22 papers are in English, and the rest in German and French. The topics include what Augustine knew about Manichaeism when he wrote his two treatises De moribus; Julian of Aeclanum's assess
