Written after the sack of Rome in 410, Augustine's monumental defense of Christianity contrasts the earthly city of human pride with the eternal City of God. Its philosophy of history and theology of the two cities shaped Western Christian thought for the next thousand years.
Sources for Augustine — The City of God
Augustine — The City of God in Religion & Spirituality
Held in the Religion & Spirituality chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Ancient Egyptian — The Book of the Dead (Spells for Coming Forth by Day) (−1550)
- Hinduism — The Rigveda (selected hymns) (−1500)
- Judaism — The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) (−500)
- Christianity — The New Testament (60)
- Islam — The Qur'an (650)
- Buddhism — The Dhammapada (−300)
- Hinduism — The Upanishads (−700)
- Hinduism — The Bhagavad Gita (−200)
- Laozi — Tao Te Ching (−400)
- Confucius — Analects (−475)
- Zhuang Zhou — Zhuangzi (−300)
- Rumi — Masnavi (Book I) (1258)
- Augustine — Confessions (397)
- Thomas à Kempis — The Imitation of Christ (1418)
- Josephus — Antiquities of the Jews (93)
- Zoroastrianism — The Avesta (Zend-Avesta) (−1000)
- Sikhism — The Guru Granth Sahib (selected hymns) (1604)
- K'iche' Maya — The Popol Vuh (1550)
- Anonymous — Theologia Germanica (1350)
- William James — The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)