City of God by Augustine (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example)
Today we begin the final Book of this mammoth work.
After a brief discussion on the will of God, Augustine begins to look again at the bodily resurrection of the saints which, Augustine admits, many do not believe.
Augustine teaches that our resurrection depends on Christ's resurrection which people refuse to believe as well - although interestingly people are happy to believe in something as extraordinary as the divinity of Romulus but not Christ.
A good portion of today's reading seeks to affirm that God can perform miracles, even in the time of Augustine.
What grabbed me
I liked the comparison that Augustine made between believers of Romulus and Christ: 'Rome believed Romulus to be a god because she loved him; the Heavenly City loved Christ because she believed him to be God.'
If Jesus wasn't God, we would not exalt him - after all he died a common criminal.
But because Jesus is God, we love him.
Continue Book 22 by reading Chapters 9 to 22.
Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.
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