La ciudad de Dios, 3

Saint Augustine is one of the most fascinating and complex personalities in the history of Christianity. One of his most important works is, without a doubt, The City of God, written in the years of the capture of Rome at the hands of the Visigoths. In it, the idea of the parallel between the divine State and the earthly State, of great historical influence on the politics and laws of Western history, is established for the first time. This volume, which includes books XVI-XXII, closes the full publication of this work, thus culminating the work of Rosa Mª Marina Sáez with a splendid exhaustively annotated translation. In this last part, Agustín de Hipona resorts to Biblical history to explain the evolution between the city of God and the earthly one; and then he recapitulates everything said in the work before finally tackling the purposes of both cities: the final judgment, hell and heaven.