The Enduring City of God ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Enduring City of God ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Why did St. Augustine write “The City of God”? Why should it continue to compel our attention today? It was the one project St. Augustine prized above all others and would spend fourteen years of his life putting it all together: The City of God. He finished the last of the twenty-two books in the year 426, just two years before the barbarians reached North Africa, laying siege to Hippo where he, its saintly bishop, would himself die two years l…

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken: The Hope of the City of God - The Living Church

While there are risks in making claims about universal social constants, the human longing for an ideal society—orderly, just, beautiful, and harmonious—seems a reasonable candidate for such a distinction.. From ancient mythologies to modern experiments in urban planning, the aspiration to build a perfect community has animated the human imagination. Psalm 87:2 captures the vision poetically: “Very excellent things are spoken of thee, O city of …