Living together in the city: sociality in Augustine's City of God - lessons for the church today

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Living together in the city: sociality in Augustine's City of God - lessons for the church today

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<p><br></p><p>Augustine poses a rhetorical question: how could the City of God begin, progress, and reach its desired end “if the life of the saints were not social?” Indeed, for him it is not just the saints but human beings in general that are social creatures: we are all social by nature – and, alas, quarrelsome by perversion. This project focuses on the sociality within <em>City of God</em> and draws some lessons from this for individual Christians and for the Church as a whole, both as a...

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2024-07-01

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Broome, Deborah

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/38758

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Augustine / City of God / theocentric / sociality / Church / community / humanity / sin / salvation

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