# City of God licences just public war as an earthly-city instrument under a providence heading

Date: 413

## The fact

City of God, as later transmitted, treats some public wars as just when waged by lawful earthly authority under providence. Alaric's 410 sack is the occasion of the work, not a war he ordered. Later scholastic just-war lists are reception. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He wrote the books across 413–426. Later jurists reused just-war headings. He did not command a legion in 410.

## Context

Marcellinus the tribune is a named early addressee-neighbour of the project. Sharing the earthly-city analysis with imperial officers is required. Two-cities limit on civic idolatry is an improving neighbour, not a rebate of this licence. Servitude in the same work is a different path. The setting of City of God licences just public war as an earthly-city instrument under a providence heading is the public file around 0413-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of City of God licences just public war as an earthly-city instrument under a providence heading. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0413-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: New Advent — Augustine, City of God at https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm (New Advent / translated Fathers). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, political thought / war neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: New Advent — Augustine, City of God (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm; New Advent / translated Fathers). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, political thought / war neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: New Advent — Augustine, City of God (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm; New Advent / translated Fathers).

## Significance

Worsening path from City of God licences just public war as an earthly-city instrument under a providence heading on 0413-01-01. A canonical licence for public war is a humanitarian-harm path of medium-high weight with lag. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of City of God licences just public war as an earthly-city instrument under a providence heading under 0413-01-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of City of God licences just public war as an earthly-city instrument under a providence heading under 0413-01-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. One City of God, not twenty-two book-Facts. Just war is one instrument inside it; two cities is another. Mixed effects of City of God licences just public war as an earthly-city instrument under a providence heading are separate paths.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Augustine Of Hippo: https://factrail.ai/people/augustine-of-hippo

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-just-war