{"product_id":"9781607782889","title":"On Christian Doctrine (De Doctrina Christiana)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn Christian Doctrine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (Latin: \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDe Doctrina   Christiana\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e) is the primary theological text written by St. Augustine of   Hippo. It consists of four books that describe how to interpret and teach the   Scriptures. The first three of these books were published in 397 and the fourth   added in 426. By writing this text, St. Augustine set three tasks on Christian   teachers and preachers: to discover the truth in the contents of the Scriptures,   to teach the truth from the Scriptures, and to defend scriptural truth when it   was attacked.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eStarting in 389 A.D., the powerful application of faith to politics led   Emperor Theodosius to issue a series of edicts against paganism that concluded   in 391 with a law making pagan worship illegal. During the Golden Age of Athens,   politics and manmade laws guided human conduct, and the city state was viewed as   a manifestation of the highest human values, giving rise to political   philosophy. Christianity effected a reversal that changed the course of Western   society. It focused on the individual and his relationship to God, reverting to   a mythico-poetic world view that required a new cultural identity and a new   educational curriculum. With this aim in mind, Emperor Justinian (483–565 A.D.)   cut off all state funding to chairs of rhetoric, essentially bringing the   classical tradition to a close.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e— Excerpted from \u003cem\u003eWikipedia, \u003c\/em\u003ethe free encyclopedia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MobileReference","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113222324464,"sku":"9781607782889","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781607782889_p0.jpg?v=1763831084","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781607782889","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}