”The City of God does not prompt isolationism but the perspective necessary to seek the repair of an inevitably fragile thing. He encouraged the church to neither despair nor place ultimate hopes in the empire... (1/3)
The present political turmoil is neither a sign of the end times nor a justification for withdrawal from the world...The city of God and the earthly city are not synonymous with the church and “world,” rather they describe the 2 societies that make up all of God’s creation: (2/3)
those joined into a community by their mutual love of God (including believers currently alive and throughout history, and angels) and those joined into an alternate community by their misdirected love of self or temporal goods." -@KaitlynSchiess (3/3)
By the way, Kaitlyn is referring to Augustine. That first tweet uses “he” and I should have put Augustine’s name in.
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