Discussions of Revelation and the “end times” play a vital role in Christian political debates. Eschatology, the theological name for the...

Book XIX of The City of God is the heart of Augustine’s political theology and the work’s argument. It is a wide-ranging, masterful, and...

Last week, we concluded a brief mini-series on how to understand the nation of Israel in the Old Testament in light of the two cities as...

Last week, we saw how the promises to Israel in the Old Testament apply to the Kingdom of Christ and cannot apply to any other earthly...

So how should we read the Old Testament passages addressed to the nation of Israel? We need to see that they are specifically addressed to I

Augustine now turns his attention to tracing the progress of the two cities, focusing on the biblical text. Book XV of The City of God...

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The City of God’s twelfth book continues Augustine’s discussion of angels and demons and asks simply, “How did the demons become evil?”...

Augustine now turns his attention more specifically to the city of God and begins with a fascinating discussion of that city’s first...

We now come to the final book in The City of God’s second section that has, in my opinion, been the most challenging aspect of...

We now come to a significant question in engaging politics and, indeed, a key question for Christian thought in general: what is the...

Augustine’s argument in Book VII of The City of God is even more foreign to us than that of Book VI. In it, Augustine argues against a...

"Civic theology" is how faith is talked about in politics. How do we think about America's Christian heritage? What is good about Christia

We are going to begin to nuance and clarify our comments last week on what it means for America to be an earthly city by asking,...

“Without justice, what are kingdoms but great robber bands? What are robber bands but small kingdoms? The band is itself made up of men,...

Book III of Augustine’s monumental work, The City of God, is an essential exploration of themes for the questions of his day but is...

As we continue into Book II of The City of God, Augustine begins to address the declining morals of the city of Rome in his own day....

There is an old French game called “He loves me, he loves me not”. Maybe some of you have played the game yourselves. I remember first...

Augustine’s most significant writing on political theology is a large volume entitled The City of God. Its importance in Christian...