Phrases with «earthly city»

The phrase "earthly city" refers to the community or society that we live in, governed by human laws and values, contrasted with a spiritual or heavenly realm. It highlights the physical and material aspects of our world that are separate from a divine or eternal plane. Full definition

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Sentences with «earthly city»

Since for him the whole of life was crammed with spiritual significance, he saw in the patriotic passion a sacrament of heavenly love, and in earthly cities symbols of the City of God. (religion-online.org)
This subtlety is attractive only to those who can live with ambiguity and uncertainty, those who do not see the earthly city as the site within which to enact messianic projects. (firstthings.com)
But charity, too, is true: «The earthly city is promoted not merely by relationships of rights and duties, but to an even greater and more fundamental extent by relationships of gratuitousness, mercy and communion.» (firstthings.com)
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Phrases with «earthly city»

Sentences with «earthly city»

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