Saint Augustine's Response To The Pagans Analysis

The recent disasters in Rome in 410, is reflected in Saint Augustine works from the City of God. These works will be discussed and analysis in order to gain a clearer picture of Augustine’s response to the Pagans, who suggest that the Christian faith had caused the recent disasters in Rome. However, Augustine does not go into too much detail of the recent disaster itself, but he does use Rome’s disaster as an example of the sins committed by the Romans Empire from the past, in order to make his case against the Pagans.
Saint Augustine was born in the North Africa town of Thagate. When he got older, he was set to Cartage to study, there he got involved in with the Manichees. Eventually, Augustine went to Rome for work and met Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, where he found the beginnings of his Christian faith, he converted to Christianity not long after that. Once converted he returned to Africa to become the bishop of Hippo, not far from his own …show more content…
Although his writings in defense of the Christians religion would seem contradictory, to this, but he needed to make an example of Rome in his defense of the Christians. Furthermore, Augustine responds to the Pagans, was used as a means to justify his Christian faith, in addition to this, he further used his response as a way of soothing those Christians, who were starting to lose their faith in God.
He wanted to show the Pagans that their Gods were indeed the ones that caused the collapse of Rome. Furthermore, he needed to show that the Romans were no saints having caused atrocities against other nations and religions, that it is only natural that they should fall from grace. Augustine believes that the capture of Rome, began way before the Christians arrived, and he further believed that Rome had brought this on themselves, for worshipping false Gods. Furthermore, their fake Gods had brought evil into their