A useful corrective, especially his last about both “cities” seeking to live in peace, for the common good. Neither of the choices on offer appear to be the heavenly candidate. It was ever thus, I suppose. Good luck today, USA.
Thanks, for this timely post! I believe the last words quoted from XIX, 17 are important for those of us (myself included, at times) who can become more spiritual than God—contrary to the Incarnation—and, thus, unchristianly trans-political, and, in that sense, fideistically irresponsible. The City of God is not just a specter. The two cities coexist and often clash, but they are never entirely separate, as the Incarnation has irrevocably joined divine and human realms in a way that shapes both. > Responsible theology is necessarily political, and a true Christian contemplative life is active politically. <
A useful corrective, especially his last about both “cities” seeking to live in peace, for the common good. Neither of the choices on offer appear to be the heavenly candidate. It was ever thus, I suppose. Good luck today, USA.
Thanks, for this timely post! I believe the last words quoted from XIX, 17 are important for those of us (myself included, at times) who can become more spiritual than God—contrary to the Incarnation—and, thus, unchristianly trans-political, and, in that sense, fideistically irresponsible. The City of God is not just a specter. The two cities coexist and often clash, but they are never entirely separate, as the Incarnation has irrevocably joined divine and human realms in a way that shapes both. > Responsible theology is necessarily political, and a true Christian contemplative life is active politically. <