410: The City of God
Augustine's seminal work, On the City of God Against the Pagans, was written in 410 in the crisis of the Visigoth sack of Rome. The…
Read moreIn this tract, Luther expounded his views concerning the ‘priesthood of all believers’ and the ‘two kingdoms’. Luther attacked the ‘three walls’ Roman Catholicism had erected to defend itself: (1) that secular authority has no jurisdiction over the Church; (2) that only the pope is able to explain Scripture; (3) that nobody but the pope himself can call a general church council.