The larger context through which our total situation may be transfigured is best conceived in terms of Civitas Dei, or the Kingdom of God, «which is not in Time at all — either present, future or past — and which differs from all temporal mundane states in the radical way of being in a different spiritual dimension, but which, just by virtue of this difference of dimension, is able to penetrate our mundane life and, in penetrating, to transfigure it». (religion-online.org)
Such events have been held by the Montana Policy Institute, the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and Oregon's Cascade Policy Institute, the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, Louisiana's Pelican Institute for Public Policy, North Carolina's John William Pope Civitas Institute, New Jersey's Common Sense Institute, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, and the Illinois Policy Foundation, according to «SPN News.» (prwatch.org)
As many scholars have pointed out there is a remarkable resemblance between Hobbes's state of nature and Augustine's civitas terrena. (religion-online.org)