Sentences with phrase «city of man»

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The glowing, crystalline, and otherworldly sculptures are named for and portray the capital city of the Man of Steel's home planet, Krypton.

But that does not mean that there are not better and worse ways of ordering our societies and conducting our affairs in the city of man» just as the «indignity» well described by James Rogers is in no way incompatible with the «dignity» for which I argue.

The city of man is by definition incommensurable with the city of God, meaning that the former does not and can not gradually approach the condition of the latter.

Speaking for myself, although the same would be true for most of the others, I was working within a broadly Augustinian way of thinking about these matters» a tradition that sharply distinguishes between the city of God and the city of man, and insists that the one can never be transformed into the other.

What Benedict XVI has not spelled out yet is another forgotten lesson from St. Augustine: the ever - corrupting role of sin in the City of Man.

He taught Christians are citizens of two kingdoms, the City of God and the City of Man.

Scripture of course, but most importantly, Augustine — Augustine who so clearly delineated between the City of God and the City of Man.

Indeed, this journal of religion and public life began by insisting that religion and public life «mean something like what Saint Augustine meant by the City of God and the City of Man.

In books that include Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy (1982), An Intellectual History of Liberalism (1987), The City of Man (1994), A World Beyond Politics?

For wars flow from the inner heart of the City of Man, its egotism, pride, ambition, and other sins — that is, distorted acts of all kinds.

Augustine never lets us forget that we live in two cities at the same time, the City of God, and the City of Man which is infected with sin.

The easiest thing to grasp about the City of God is that it is not the City of Man — that is to say, that all existing moral - political authority is all - too - human, and that every individual represents some promise, some meaning, some destiny far beyond anything that can be represented in the economy of an actual political - cultural world.

Law is king in the city of man, but Grace rules in the Kingdom of God.

The tendency is evident already in Augustine: since our true home is the Heavenly City, the City of Man (the political world) has no higher purpose but to enable compromise regarding the necessities of mortality.

The City of God is not the City of Man; man can not hope to rear a perfect city.

The postliberal condition can retain many aspects that are regarded as liberalism's triumphs — equal dignity of persons, in particular — while envisioning an alternative understanding of the human person, human community, politics, and the relationship of the cities of Man to the city of God.

The city of man always needs purification and renewal.

To try to establish the City of Man on anything other than faith in God is to build on quicksand.

They recognize that the Gospel transcends the always uncertain, always fallible political judgments that govern the city of man.

The difference is that while supernatural truths of faith leaven the political judgments of the city of man, human rights override and void those judgments.

If we give our highest praise to the human race and its supposed possibilities for self - expression, we shall perhaps become faithful citizens of the «City of Man,» but we shall not become loyal subjects in the City of God.

By religion and public life we mean something like what Saint Augustine meant by the City of God and the City of Man.

From the apostles» assertion, «We must obey God rather than man» (Acts 5), through Augustine's construal of the City of God and City of Man, through the Investiture Controversy of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Christianity had traditionally insisted upon that divided sovereignty which first found democratic political expression in seventeenth - century England.

Religion, in short, is resistant to successful foreign policy when the city of man is equated with the city o God.

In a metropolitan model, the Presbyterian and the Methodist see themselves primarily as ministers in a local community, co-laborers with the Lutherans and Pentecostals and Catholics on the next block, working together to build a semblance of the city of God within the city of man.

There are two commonwealths, the city of man, an earthly city, and the heavenly city, the city of God.

Secularists aim to convert the city of man from a virtue - based community to a wilderness of wildly autonomous selves, and any soul can be confused by and get swept up in its false promises.

A person who retreats from public life because it is too inconvenient or unpleasant or fails to accord with his nice ideals acts as a citizen of the city of man, seeking his own good — peace of mind, ideological purity — at the expense of the common good.

It assumes that our elections, legislative battles, and legal wrangling concern only the city of man, and that Christians, insofar as they are loyal to the city of God, must distance themselves from politics.

It's the City of God, not the City of Man, that's sustainable over the infinitely long term.

(«The City of Man: A Social Systems Reckoning,» Environment for Men, ed.

The books concerned were Augustine's on The Trinity, on God as threefold, and on The City of God, written in the early years of the fifth century when the city of man, notably Rome, was looking to be shaky, texts still of great interest to historians and theologians in the twentieth century.

It would underscore the point that viewing the imperfections of the City of Man in the light of the City of God is the surest foundation for constitutional government and responsible political freedom in the age of ideology.

Marsh's criticism of his fellow evangelicals is frequently over the top, however, and he offers slight guidance for faithful members of what St. Augustine called the City of God in their exercise of citizenship in the city of man.

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