Augustine
Subtitle: Later Works (The Library of Christian Classics)
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: June 1980
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780664241650
First sentence: AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FOURTH CENTURY, THE Christian religion, which had for so long been regarded as a menace to the unity and stability of the Roman Empire, was adopted by a sudden volte-face of its persecutor as the religion of the State, to serve the very purpose which it had been deemed to threaten.