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La cité de dieu

CHAPITRE XXIX.

IL FAUT RAPPORTER A UN SEUL VRAI DIEU TOUT CE QUE LES PHILOSOPHES ONT RAPPORTÉ AU MONDE ET A SES PARTIES.

Et en effet, tout ce que la théologie physique rapporte au monde, combien il serait plus aisé, sans crainte d’une opinion sacrilége, de le rapporter au vrai Dieu, Créateur du monde, principe de toutes les âmes et de tous les corps ! C’est ce qui résulte de ce simple énoncé de notre croyance : Nous adorons Dieu, et non pas le ciel et la terre, ces deux parties dont se compose le monde; nous n’adorons ni l’âme ni les âmes répandues dans tous les corps vivants, mais le Créateur du ciel, de la terre et de tous les êtres, l’Auteur de toutes les âmes, végétatives, sensibles ou raisonnables.

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The City of God

Chapter 29.--That All Things Which the Physical Theologists Have Referred to the World and Its Parts, They Ought to Have Referred to the One True God.

For all those things which, according to the account given of those gods, are referred to the world by so-called physical interpretation, may, without any religious scruple, be rather assigned to the true God, who made heaven and earth, and created every soul and every body; and the following is the manner in which we see that this may be done. We worship God,--not heaven and earth, of which two parts this world consists, nor the soul or souls diffused through all living things,--but God who made heaven and earth, and all things which are in them; who made every soul, whatever be the nature of its life, whether it have life without sensation and reason, or life with sensation, or life with both sensation and reason.