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Augustine wrote the treatise to explain Christianity's relationship with competing religions and philosophies, and to the Roman government with which it was increasingly intertwined. It was written soon after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. This event left Romans in a deep state of shock, and many saw it as punishment for abandoning their Roman religion. It was in this atmosphere that Augustine set out to provide a consolation of [[Christianity]], writing that, even if the earthly rule of the empire was imperilled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph - symbolically, Augustine's eyes were fixed on [[heaven]], a theme repeated in many Christian works of Late Antiquity.

Augustine wrote the treatise to explain Christianity's relationship with competing religions and philosophies, and to the Roman government with which it was increasingly intertwined. It was written soon after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. This event left Romans in a deep state of shock, and many saw it as punishment for abandoning their Roman religion. It was in this atmosphere that Augustine set out to provide a consolation of [[Christianity]], writing that, even if the earthly rule of the empire was imperilled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph - symbolically, Augustine's eyes were fixed on [[heaven]], a theme repeated in many Christian works of Late Antiquity.

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