The City of God, Book XXII

Book XXII

• The City of God XXII.1 — Of the Creation of Angels and Men. As we promised in the immediately preceeding book, this, the last of the whole work, shall contain a discussion of the eternal blessedness of the city of God. This blessedness is…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.2 — Of the Eternal and Unchangeable Will of God. It is true that wicked men do many things contrary to God’s will; but so great is His wisdom and power, that all things which seem adverse to His purpose do still tend…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.3 — Of the Promise of Eternal Blessedness to the Saints, and Everlasting Punishment to the Wicked. Chapter 3.—Of the Promise of Eternal Blessedness to the Saints, and Everlasting Punishment to the Wicked. Wherefore, not…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.4 — Against the Wise Men of the World, Who Fancy that the Earthly Bodies of Men Cannot Be Transferred to a Heavenly Habitation. Chapter 4.—Against the Wise Men of the World, Who Fancy that the Earthly Bodies of Men…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.5 — Of the Resurrection of the Flesh, Which Some Refuse to Believe, Though the World at Large Believes It. Chapter 5.—Of the Resurrection of the Flesh, Which Some Refuse to Believe, Though the World at Large Believes It.…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.6 — That Rome Made Its Founder Romulus a God Because It Loved Him; But the Church Loved Christ Because It Believed Him to Be God. Chapter 6.—That Rome Made Its Founder Romulus a God Because It Loved Him; But the Church…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.7 — That the World’s Belief in Christ is the Result of Divine Power, Not of Human Persuasion. Chapter 7.—That the World’s Belief in Christ is the Result of Divine Power, Not of Human Persuasion. But it is thoroughly…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.8 — Of Miracles Which Were Wrought that the World Might Believe in Christ, and Which Have Not Ceased Since the World Believed. Chapter 8.—Of Miracles Which Were Wrought that the World Might Believe in Christ, and Which…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.9 — That All the Miracles Which are Done by Means of the Martyrs in the Name of Christ Testify to that Faith Which the Martyrs Had in Christ. Chapter 9.—That All the Miracles Which are Done by Means of the Martyrs in the…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.10 — Chapter 10.—That the Martyrs Who Obtain Many Miracles in Order that the True God May Be Worshipped, are Worthy of Much Greater Honor Than the Demons, Who Do Some Marvels that They Themselves May Be Supposed to Be…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.11 — Against the Platonists, Who Argue from the Physical Weight of the Elements that an Earthly Body Cannot Inhabit Heaven. Chapter 11.—Against the Platonists, Who Argue from the Physical Weight of the Elements that an…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.12 — Against the Calumnies with Which Unbelievers Throw Ridicule Upon the Christian Faith in the Resurrection of the Flesh. Chapter 12.—Against the Calumnies with Which Unbelievers Throw Ridicule Upon the Christian Faith…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.13 — Whether Abortions, If They are Numbered Among the Dead, Shall Not Also Have a Part in the Resurrection. Chapter 13.—Whether Abortions, If They are Numbered Among the Dead, Shall Not Also Have a Part in the…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.14 — Whether Infants Shall Rise in that Body Which They Would Have Had Had They Grown Up. Chapter 14.—Whether Infants Shall Rise in that Body Which They Would Have Had Had They Grown Up. What, then, are we to say of…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.15 — Whether the Bodies of All the Dead Shall Rise the Same Size as the Lord’s Body. Chapter 15.—Whether the Bodies of All the Dead Shall Rise the Same Size as the Lord’s Body. It is certain that Christ rose in the same…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.16 — What is Meant by the Conforming of the Saints to the Image of The Son of God. Then, again, these words, “Predestinate to be conformed to the image of the Son of God,” may be understood of the inner man. So in another…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.17 — Whether the Bodies of Women Shall Retain Their Own Sex in the Resurrection. From the words, “Till we all come to a perfect man, to the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ,” and from the words, “Conformed to…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.18 — Of the Perfect Man, that Is, Christ; And of His Body, that Is, The Church, Which is His Fullness. Chapter 18.—Of the Perfect Man, that Is, Christ; And of His Body, that Is, The Church, Which is His Fullness. To…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.19 — Chapter 19.—That All Bodily Blemishes Which Mar Human Beauty in This Life Shall Be Removed in the Resurrection, the Natural Substance of the Body Remaining, But the Quality and Quantity of It Being Altered So as to…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.20 — That, in the Resurrection, the Substance of Our Bodies, However Disintegrated, Shall Be Entirely Reunited. Chapter 20.—That, in the Resurrection, the Substance of Our Bodies, However Disintegrated, Shall Be Entirely…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.21 — Of the New Spiritual Body into Which the Flesh of the Saints Shall Be Transformed. Chapter 21.—Of the New Spiritual Body into Which the Flesh of the Saints Shall Be Transformed. Whatever, therefore, has been taken…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.22 — Chapter 22.—Of the Miseries and Ills to Which the Human Race is Justly Exposed Through the First Sin, and from Which None Can Be Delivered Save by Christ’s Grace. That the whole human race has been condemned in its…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.23 — Of the Miseries of This Life Which Attach Peculiarly to the Toil of Good Men, Irrespective of Those Which are Common to the Good and Bad. Chapter 23.—Of the Miseries of This Life Which Attach Peculiarly to the Toil…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.24 — Of the Blessings with Which the Creator Has Filled This Life, Obnoxious Though It Be to the Curse. Chapter 24.—Of the Blessings with Which the Creator Has Filled This Life, Obnoxious Though It Be to the Curse. But we…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.25 — Of the Obstinacy of Those Individuals Who Impugn the Resurrection of the Body, Though, as Was Predicted, the Whole World Believes It. Chapter 25.—Of the Obstinacy of Those Individuals Who Impugn the Resurrection of…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.26 — Chapter 26.—That the Opinion of Porphyry, that the Soul, in Order to Be Blessed, Must Be Separated from Every Kind of Body, is Demolished by Plato, Who Says that the Supreme God Promised the Gods that They Should…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.27 — Chapter 27.—Of the Apparently Conflicting Opinions of Plato and Porphyry, Which Would Have Conducted Them Both to the Truth If They Could Have Yielded to One Another. Statements were made by Plato and Porphyry…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.28 — Chapter 28.—What Plato or Labeo, or Even Varro, Might Have Contributed to the True Faith of the Resurrection, If They Had Adopted One Another’s Opinions into One Scheme. Some Christians, who have a liking for Plato…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.29 — Of the Beatific Vision. And now let us consider, with such ability as God may vouchsafe, how the saints shall be employed when they are clothed in immortal and spiritual bodies, and when the flesh shall live no…vatican.va
• The City of God XXII.30 — Of the Eternal Felicity of the City of God, and of the Perpetual Sabbath. How great shall be that felicity, which shall be tainted with no evil, which shall lack no good, and which shall afford leisure for the…vatican.va