<p>St. Augustine tries to explain in his most well known work 'The City of God against the pagans' why the fall of the city was no disaster. The book was written to refute pagan accusations that the abandonment of the Greco-Roman gods had led to the catastrophe. However surely Jesus should have been supporting the Roman Empire now that it worshipped him?</p>

St. Augustine tries to explain in his most well known work 'The City of God against the pagans' why the fall of the city was no disaster. The book was written to refute pagan accusations that the abandonment of the Greco-Roman gods had led to the catastrophe. However surely Jesus should have been supporting the Roman Empire now that it worshipped him?

Why Jesus failed to stop the fall of Christian Rome

Pagan wisdom in an era of encroaching Christianity. Flavius Claudius Julianus is a religious history channel with discussions and analysis on the polemics of early pagan critics of Christianity and the counterattacks by Christian writers as well as a critiquing of the early (and real) Christianity of the Christians and Church fathers during the Roman Empire period and beyond. Authors, writers and historians discussed include St. Augustine, Prudentius, Eusebius, Tertullian, Origen and other Church fathers.

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Why Jesus failed to stop the fall of Christian Rome

Why Jesus failed to stop the fall of Christian Rome