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Charles Mathewes · 2016
A 24-lecture course guide to Augustine's The City of God, exploring the 1,600-year-old theological and political masterwork through thematic analysis of its 22 books, examining Augustine's response to the Sack of Rome and his vision of Christian life in the fallen world.
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What this book knows
Augustine's City of God teaches that Rome's fall was humanity's perpetual condition, demanding a politics of love over power.
education-and-formation
It had become a trauma metabolized into insight, coolly recollected in tranquility.
BMCG-RC-013There's a deeply pedagogical aim to this book—a beginner's guidebook, a manual for Christian life in this world.
BMCG-RC-016obedience-and-authority
Once you have power, you realize, were you to let it go, someone else would gain it and use it against you.
BMCG-RC-137Kingdoms without justice are little more than large criminal gangs—latrocinia: larcenies or rackets.
BMCG-RC-131faith-and-doubt
We are living in the midst of a huge moral revolution deeply oriented and driven by Christ.
BMCG-RC-040Augustine understood naturalistic reductionism—that our true nature is no more spiritual than that of a squirrel.
BMCG-RC-167Illuminates
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