{"id":341706,"date":"2013-02-18T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/forgiveness\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:08:37","slug":"forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77314 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;border: 0px none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cog_paper_small_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><strong>Introduction and Translation by William Babcock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along with his Confessions, The City of God is undoubtedly St. Augustine\u2019s most influential work. In the context of what begins as a lengthy critique of classic Roman religion and a defense of Christianity, Augustine touches upon numerous topics, including the role of grace, the original state of humanity, the possibility of waging a just war, the ideal form of government, and the nature of heaven and hell. But his major concern is the difference between the City of God and the City of Man \u2013 one built on love of God, the other on love of self. One cannot but be moved and impressed by the author\u2019s breadth of interest and penetrating intelligence. For all those who are interested in the greatest classics of Christian antiquity, The City of God is indispensable. This long-awaited translation by William Babcock is published in two volumes, with an introduction and annotation that make Augustine\u2019s monumental work approachable.<\/p>\n<p>Available from New City Press (NY): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcitypress.com\/city-of-god.html\">www.newcitypress.com\/city-of-god.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Minute Reflections on Redeeming Life&#8217;s Most Difficult Moments by Joan Mueller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}