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Augustine - City of God. (City of God. (Goal: (Seek peace & love)…
Augustine -
City of God.
City of God.
Goal:
(Seek peace & love)
Goal is to achieve
perfected peace.
A heavenly peace so perfect it should be regarded as the 'only peace deserving of the name'
Seeks to find peace through the mind with God.
To make God their sole focus in the hopes that they are worthy for him to dwell inside all of them.
City of the mind, of the spiritual,
leads members to worship the
true
God.
Corinthians 15:28:
'So that God may be all in all'
'Love of God, carried as far as contempt of self'
Key terms:
Perfected peace:
'Only peace deserving of the name'
Pre-destined friends:
C.O.G members already elected.
Analogy of wheat & Tears: C.O.G members = Wheat.
Grace:
God's grace is essential for success of C.O.G. members. Allows members to resist temporal pleasures.
Faith:
is the gift of God for those chosen to be a part of the city. Allows members to resist temporal pleasures.
Grace & Faith
Grace
- Is essential for the success of the citizens of the city of God.
Faith
- Is the gift of God for those chosen to be apart of the city.
Helps the load of the...
'CORRUPTIBLE BODY WHICH WEIGHS HEAVY ON THE SOUL.'
Wisdom 9:15
'
City of Men
Goal: (Seek peace and love )
Peace through
bodily desires
or
irrational soul.
Love for :
'Lust for dominion'
To pleasure their
perverted delights
Seek peace through the
admiration of men
Love of self
, but contempt of God.
'Love of self, carried as far as contempt of God.'
Desire
Desire to satisfy the appetites, slaves that '
lust for dominion.'
Law
Law provides members of earthly city with perverted delights.
Members of C.O.G unconcerned with 'utter corruption of their city'
Impossible to separate the two until judgement day, as discussed in Augustine's analogy of the wheat and tears. C.O.G members, the wheat, will be separated for harvest and kept safe in the barns. However, the tares, a.k.a the City of Men, will burn.
Similarities:
Both
present within the church, C.O.M fill the churches as they 'also fill the theatres'
Both
seeking to find
peace
Built upon
foundations of love
Impossible
to separate, only on
*judgement day.
IMPORTANT QUOTES
Perfect peace - so heavenly
Only peace deserving of the name
Members of earthly city:
Lust for dominion
Live in temporal world of material things
Wheat & Tears analogy:
Wheat will be gather into the barn, tares, burned.'
C.O.G. members:
'Some pre-destined friends, as yet unknown, even to themselves, are concealed among our most open enemies'