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Title: A Non-Catholic reads Augustine's City of God
Review: Augustine was arguing that forbidding the pagan religion wasn't bringing about the fall of the Roman Empire. While this work may be gospel among Catholics, I keep finding logical and factual problems with it. The least of them is the Roman Empire fell within two or three centuries after he wrote City of God. On the other hand, this is an invaluable source for information on the thinking, the history and the lives of the Ancients, which is why I like it. It is no more biased than other primary sources.About this translation, it starts out with the heavyhandedness of 19th Century polemics, However, it soon turns to a more readable, less wordy style more in line with the 21st Century. If you need to read Augustine's book, this wouldn't be a bad translation to use.
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