WHAT DID HIST OF PAGAN ROME REP 4 AUG

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represents in some ways Augustine’s personal

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spiritual journey as both he and pagan Rome were corrupted by ‘the deep chasm of ungodliness’
also ‘saved’ by their conversions to Christianity

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the ‘greatness of the Roman Empire’ was ‘established by divine providence’(V:I)

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not by the pagans of Rome who ‘deny the foreknowledge of God’

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pagan Rome, whilst under God’s ‘divine providence’, symbolised a D&D

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dislocated and disconnected ‘earthly city’ for Augustine and its history is crucial to his criticisms of the ‘ungodly’ Roman republic

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‘a republic cannot be administered without justice’ and thus the history of pagan Rome becomes an example of a society

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‘without justice’, as a result of free will exercised by the pagans

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Augustine extracts the faults in pagan Rome society and crafts a?

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moral didactic manual De Civitate Dei using such examples of pagan sinfulness to serve a specifically Christian purpose

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The history of pagan Rome represents an impious model for the ‘earthly’ society, yet Augustine makes its history useful as a corrective to

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Christian complacency and Christian pride

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This distinction between Rome as ‘earthly’ rather than ‘heavenly’ ‘City’ – or more so of an ‘earthly’ than

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‘heavenly’ nature as he explains life on earth is a combination of both

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In Book XIX Augustine classifies the two terms and the ‘earthly advantage or desire’ of Rome becomes deeply

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negative as pagan Rome lacked the concern for an immortal, or ‘heavenly’ ‘advantage or desire’ which could be achieved by faith in God

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!!!!Pagan Rome as an ‘earthly city’ represents an undesirable, sinful society ‘which

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does not live by faith, desires an earthly peace, and establishes an ordered concord of civic obedience and rule in order to secure a kind of co-operation of men’s wills for the sake of attaining the things which belong to this mortal life’ (XVII).

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futility of the ‘earthly advantage’ of which Rome concerns itself, that of ephemeral peace… q 4 the sake

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‘for the sake of attaining the things which belong to this mortal life’

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‘Heavenly City’ not futile as

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‘which lives by faith’ with the ‘promise of redemption’ possesses virtuous value, and it is this ‘godly’ virtue which Augustine values most highly

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the ‘sin’ and ‘vanity’, as embodied by the ? desires of its citizens, represents the history of pagan Rome for Augustine, at least until 312

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earthly

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what was central to Augustine’s perception of pagan Rome as a sinful enterprise

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moral corruption

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which Two factors failed the Romans of a virtuous pursuance of these values

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‘wealth’ and the ‘worshipping of false gods’

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what did aug say wealth did

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which ‘corrupted their morals and led them to plunder their miserable citizens to lavish bounty on vile actors’

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what did aug say about the wicked

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who ‘had no virtue even though they longed to have honour’

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Deane comments on the ‘imperfect’ result of earthly peace - aug says

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this ‘imperfectness’ arguably derives in the values of the pagans, which lack virtue

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Whilst Augustine believes God distributed ‘power to Marius, also gave it to Gaius Caesar’, his disapproval lies in their

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‘preference [prefer] to govern wicked desires more than any people whatsoever’ (V:XXI).

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Thus the history of pagan Rome represents the wrong order for the right

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right motives of a ‘commonwealth’, and its sinfulness is key to understanding Augustine’s theological commentary

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primitive Romans’ who ‘worshipped

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false Gods’ (V:XII)
describes the ‘impudent, sacrilegious and ungodly argument’ of those ‘persuaded that the Roman empire was not propagated and preserved by the worship of these gods’, rather than ‘to the all-powerful will of the most high God’

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what reduced the glory of Rome

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its profanity

Rome ‘sacrificed victims not to God, but to demons’

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The Romans ‘established temples of the gods’, specifically ‘those of Virtue and Honour’ – yet Augustine condemns the pagans

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for they took the gifts of God to be gods themselves’

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Daly argues that Augustine’s aim

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‘is to demonstrate that Rome’s gods never saved Rome from disasters’ , and this is clear as he ‘demythologizes imperial ideology’ - attribute success to ‘one true God’

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The success of Rome was clouded by its

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‘ungodly impudence’

attributes this to the ‘impious’ (XII:XXV) model of a great empire that represented pagan Rome

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By examining the faults of pagan Rome, Augustine could establish solutions and present them to Christians to salve their

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complacency and pride, as well as establish a ‘harmonious’ (XIX:XVII) uniting of ‘Heavenly’ and ‘earthly’ cities

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In Book V, Augustine described the Romans, ‘for the sake of human glory’ – not

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not ‘heavenly’ glory, ‘profiting from the kindness of the Lord our God’

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‘impious’ meaning 4 aug that fault pagan Rome

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believe that any being other than God is the creator of the universe’

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Throughout De Civitate Dei Augustine directs his argument at a ? Audience

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Christian

designed partially to use against pagans

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For example in Book V:IX, Augustine recounts the impious route the Romans took to gain success QUOTE

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‘the Romans performed such works and underwent such evils for an earthly country which they possessed already’

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look 2 evils 4 moral instruction quote

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‘We should not look upon ourselves as having accomplished any great thing if we have performed some good works or endured some evils in order to attain it’

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provide clear ways to instruct on the QUOTE

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‘ruthless elimination of deviations’ (Momigliano, 1963)

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what is profitable from pagan Rome 4 augy

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‘considering what great things the Romans despised, what they endured and what lusts they subdued’

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example when he directly addresses his Christian audience

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writes ‘Let this consideration, then, be useful to us in subduing pride’

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In Book XIX, Augustine agrees with Cicero’s argument in De republica that there was never a

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Roman ‘commonwealth’, and he dissects its history to establish instructions on what is required to provide one

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what Rome lacked for it to b a ‘commonwealth’

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‘was no property of people’ as ‘there is no true justice’, therefore ‘there can be no association of men ‘united in fellowship by common agreement as to what is right’

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what Rome lacked for it to b a ‘commonwealth’ justice

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imperial city to which a great commonwealth belongs must govern her provinces by means of justice’

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Augustine breaks down what a polity means – ‘let us say that a ‘people’ is an

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assembled multitude of rational creatures bound together by a common agreement’

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common agreement founded on what he believes is

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is ‘the objects of their love’

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what was the object of love for pagan romans

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they possessed a love of ‘wealth’, ‘glory’ and ‘dominion’

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he teaches Christians that ‘to discover the character of any people, we have only to examine what it loves’… what is this 4 christians

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this must be God for such ‘creatures’ to be glorious and virtuous – ‘true justice has no existence save in that republic whose founder and ruler is Christ’

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instructs ‘true felicity’ can ‘be found in full measure … BOOK V

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as a gift from God’, and it will provide ‘the virtues’ to join God in his ‘eternal city’

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USES SECULARISATION AS BROWN - ‘religious coercion’?

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‘the general quality of his thought’

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argument: considering the capability of pagan Rome performing extraordinary deeds motivated by vanity and greed, yet

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transforming the approach for Christians, urging them to follow suit but by a motivation of ‘true glory’ and ‘true virtue’ to improve the reality of a Christian remnant present.

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The history of pagan Rome for Augustine represented a vain, gluttonous and powerful political system, void of

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piety and moral virtue

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Christians strive to form a perfect union with Christ in the ‘eternal city’

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by they ‘must strive against himself’ which pagan romans did not do

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Mommsen argues that Augustine was ‘deeply conscious

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of the problem presented by the worldly-minded Christians after the fall of Rome’ and thus for Augustine to view the history of pagan Rome as a representation of past faults to instruct present faults is viable

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istory of pagan Rome represents a model for the ‘earthly’ society which seeks improvement for a union

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with the ‘Heavenly city’, and Augustine provides the moral guidance as a reaction to the faults of Rome to elucidate the means of reaching De Civitate Dei