St. Augustine, we know, was one of the world's great minds. Yet, how many, today, would read his City of God one of his masterpieces, in which a whole philosophy of history is created out of the earthquake crash of the Roman Empire? And if this great intellectual vision is, in practice, unreadable, is its author really all that relevant for us today? Marthinus Versfeld has had considerable experience in introducing university audiences to the mind of St. Augustine. Here it is compressed and presented with pith and vigour. The book is a genuine guide not, that is, a washy boil-down designed to save you trouble of reading the work for yourself.