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Angelology and the Angelic Fall

The City of God, Volume I

When Rome burned, Augustine answered pagan accusations with a sweeping theology of two cities—divine and earthly—that reframed the meaning of history itself, locating the true City of God not in empire but in the fellowship of souls oriented toward eternal beatitude.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint · 2014 · 192 min

The Devil and the Truth

The scriptural phrase “the truth is not in him” (John 8:44) is analyzed. The construction indicates that the devil’s failure to abide in the truth is the cause, not the consequence, of the truth’s absence. He was originally in the truth but chose to abandon it through pride.

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