City of God

  • City of God: Faith in the streets
    By Sara Miles

    It tells the story of one day in Sara_s ministry: Ash Wednesday, when she carries ashes out of church to public places including bus stops, bakeries, beauty shops, fast-food joints and street corners; marking the foreheads of strangers ...

  • City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala
    By Kevin Lewis O'Neill

    See, e.g., McClain 2002; Cott 2000; Dowd 2000; Hartog 2000; Nock 1998; Blakenhorn 1995; Dennis and Erdos 1993; Morgan 1995. See also Donzelot 1979. The work of Nancy Cott, for example, argues from a historical perspective that American ...

  • City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala
    By Kevin Lewis O'Neill

    Instead, they repeat a familiar history. a fool's errand In 1952 the historian and literary critic Perry Miller penned his essay “Errand into the Wilderness,” which addressed a minor moment in American letters: the rhetorical ...

  • City of God: A Novel
    By Paulo Lins

    When City of God erupted on screens worldwide, it became one of the most critically and commercially successful foreign films of recent years. But few were aware of the story behind the film.

  • City of God
    By Paulo Lins

    A powerful saga of the rise of the drug trade in the notorious slums of Rio de Janeiro spans three decades, recreating the turbulent times of the sixties that led to all-out street warfare, murder, and rampant drug trafficking by ruthless ...

  • City of God
    By Saint Augustine, Augustine of Hippo

    One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western thought.

  • City of God: A Novel
    By E.L. Doctorow

    Praise for City of God “A grander perspective on the universe . . . a novel that sets its sights on God.”—The Wall Street Journal “Dazzling . . .

  • City of God: Faith in the streets
    By Sara Miles

    City of God is a moving, prophetic account of the divine in daily life. It tells the story of one day in Sara’s ministry: Ash Wednesday, when she carries ashes out of church to public places.

  • City of God: A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York
    By Beverly Swerling

    New York's first Jewish lawyer battles such challenges as corrupt Tammany politicians, evangelical preachers, and opium-smoking doctors in the years prior to the Civil War.

  • City of God: A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York
    By Beverly Swerling

    This is New York when one synagogue is no longer adequate for thousands of Jewish immigrants, when New Evangelicals rouse complacent Protestants with the promise of born-again salvation, and when it first sees Catholic nuns and calls them ...

  • City of God: A Novel of the Borgias
    By Cecelia Holland

    With City of God she brings a remarkable epoch and a legendary family of scoundrels and murderers to breathtaking life—the corrupt patriarch pope; the suspiciously widowed and incestuous daughter, Lucrezia; Cesare, the bloodthirsty ...

  • City of God
    By Saint Augustine

    City of God is an enduringly significant work in the history of Christian thought, by one of its central figures Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this great ...

  • City of God
    By St. Augustine

    This edition has been skillfully abridged for the intelligent general reader by Vernon J. Bourke, author of Augustine’s Quest for Wisdom, making the heart of this monumental work available to a wide audience.

  • City of God: A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York
    By Beverly Swerling

    This is New York when one synagogue is no longer adequate for thousands of Jewish immigrants, when New Evangelicals rouse complacent Protestants with the promise of born-again salvation, and when it first sees Catholic nuns and calls them ...

  • City of God
    By Gil Cuadros

    This is an awesome and haunting book.”—David Trinidad “The sensual, the expressive, the daring, the transformed become the matryrs of every era, every family. Their memoirs, heroics are our most devastating works of art.

  • City of God
    By David Mach

    What you see in this book, therefore, is the work of thirty artists, and through them the collage has become a portrayal of the search for the soul, or at least a battleground of the senses.

  • City of God
    By St Augustine

    Saint Augustine of Hippo is one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and this book is one of his greatest theological works.

  • City of God: A Novel
    By E.L. Doctorow

    Praise for City of God “A grander perspective on the universe . . . a novel that sets its sights on God.”—The Wall Street Journal “Dazzling . . .