In this episode, the correspondence that lead to St. Augustine’s penning of City of God is analyzed. Marcellinus and Volusian (with whom Augustine has this letter exchange) ask questions that really indicate society’s intellectual and moral conditions in Late Antiquity and during the beginning of the fall of Rome. The title of this podcast refers to a joke about the City of God being a “doorstop of a book” and it’s fitting for the podcast too because it is almost twice as long as the normal Emma•ism episodes!