Books that Matter: The City of God
Season 1
Ep 10. Who or What Is God? (Books 8-9)
- TV-PG
- October 21, 2016
- 32 min
Of all the Roman philosophers, Augustine felt the most kinship with the Platonists, who had developed a transcendent view of God. Where they fell short, he believed, was in imagining God as a distant being, uninterested in material reality. For Augustine, God is immediate and accessible, as he argues in Books 8 and 9.