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Study Guide for Augustine’s The City of God. Try to write the answers in your own words, instead of copying directly from the text. Remember to look up any unfamiliar words in a dictionary.

1. Read the introduction to the selections from The City of God .

2. What does Augustine say about man’s creation and sin in Chapter 1, para 1 and 2 ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. How does Augustine define “living after the flesh” in para 1, 2 and 3?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. How does he describe the “nature of the two cities” in Chapter 28, para 4 and 5 ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Summarize his discussion of the ”rational soul” and the need for a “divine Master” ,  para one. What similarities do you see to Plato’s Tripartite Doctrine of the Soul?

 

 

 

 

 

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