# City of God distinguishes the earthly city from the city of God, limiting civic idolatry after 410

Date: 413

## The fact

City of God, begun after Alaric's sack of Rome in 410, distinguishes the city of God from the earthly city and refuses to treat Rome as a saving cult. Later political uses as a constitution are reception. War-licence and servitude stay on their own rows. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He wrote over 413–426. Pagan critics of 410 are the occasion. He did not draft a modern constitution. Just-war and servitude remain other paths in the same work.

## Context

Pagan aristocrats blaming Christians for 410 are the named polemical targets. Sharing the occasion with Marcellinus is required. Confessions is not this book. Theodosius' earlier imperial Christianity is a neighbouring Person-file, not Augustine's statute. The setting of City of God distinguishes the earthly city from the city of God, limiting civic idolatry after 410 is the public file around 0413-06-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

## 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, City of God / two cities 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, City of God / two cities (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

Improving path from City of God distinguishes the earthly city from the city of God, limiting civic idolatry after 410 on 0413-06-01. A public two-cities limit on worship of the empire is a cohesion path of high weight. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

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

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of City of God distinguishes the earthly city from the city of God, limiting civic idolatry after 410 under 0413-06-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of City of God distinguishes the earthly city from the city of God, limiting civic idolatry after 410 under 0413-06-01.

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not split 22 books into 22 Facts. Do not rebate just war with this heading. Gutenberg English is a carrier. Mixed effects of City of God distinguishes the earthly city from the city of God, limiting civic idolatry after 410 are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of City of God distinguishes the earthly city from the city of God, limiting civic idolatry after 410. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0413-06-01 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## 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-two-cities