de civitate dei contra paganos, part 2

Actually... Augustine would have been pleased to lead more to Christianity, but conversion was not the goal

• "Why do they say that this calamity has fallen upon the city of Rome because she has ceased to worship her gods?" 1.15 (cause of book)
• "For among our most declared enemies—unknown even to themselves—thre lie hidden some who are predestined to become our friends. In this world, the two cities are indeed entangled and mingled with one another; and they will remain so until the last judgment shall separate them." - 1.35 (election)
• "And some of them [pagans], insofar as they were aided by God, did indeed make certain great discoveries. When impeeded by their own humanity, however, they erred, especially when the divine providence justly resisted their pride, so that it might show by comparison with them that it is through humility that the path of godliness ascends on high." 2.7 (tension between natural theology and revealed; reavealed in extra-Christian ways).

Not so much focused on converting, but on explaining how Christians are more Roman than Romans, at least while they sojourn in the mixed world.