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Catholic eschatology of the church/Jerusalem as the divine order replacing Rome-like worldly power.
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City of God
Catholic eschatology of the church/Jerusalem as the divine order replacing Rome-like worldly power.
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Augustine’s framework that Jiang says makes the Catholic Church divine and outside history.
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Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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Augustine's work used here as the intellectual blueprint for submission, self-distrust, and obedience in medieval Catholic thought.
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Jiang says Catholic eschatology wants the Anglo-American Empire destroyed like Rome so the City of God can be reestablished.
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Jiang says Rome’s western fall is less meaningful than it appears because power had already shifted from empire to Church, and post-Roman warlords still considered themselves heirs of Rome.
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To Romans, Paul's pitch is that Christianity divides Jews, pacifies their Messiah of war, and spiritually enslaves workers.
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To Jewish leaders, the pitch is that Christianity universalizes Torah, elevates Jerusalem, and lets Jews work with Roman patriarchs.
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Augustine's City of God is presented as the move that places the Catholic Church above the temporal Roman city.
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Jiang says official Catholic teaching treats the Church as the millennium or messianic age and emphasizes personal salvation under Church guidance rather than a literal political end-times program.
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Jiang explicitly teaches that ideas move history, and introduces Augustine's City of God as the idea-source for the Holy Roman Empire.
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Augustine wrote City of God to answer the traumatic sack of Rome and defend Christianity against the charge that pagan gods were punishing Rome for abandoning them.
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"...the Catholic eschatology. And the Catholic eschatology we can call City of God."
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"...of money, of wealth. And what matters is Jerusalem, the city of God, of spirituality, of divinity, okay? Now, the City of God came..."
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"...Paul's ideas and systemizes it. He teaches us in the City of God that the Catholic Church is out of history. It is beyond..."
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"And that's the power of the church. One thing to remember about Europe is that there are lots of geopolitics. There are lots of..."
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"...Augustine will do is, he will write a book called City of God, and he will put the Catholic Church above Rome, okay? Because..."
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"Okay, so this is really important. Jesus said there's a divine spark in us, right? In other sense, yes, there's a divine spark, but..."
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"will above God's commandment, and to suppose that his was of venial transgression when he refused to desert his life's companion, even though the..."
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"...Now, it's interesting because if you read Augustine and the City of God, what he argues is that the Church is the millennium. The..."
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"a policy of personal eschatology, which argues that it is for our own personal transformation, our own personal salvation and redemption through the guidance..."
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"So, remember, it's the City of God. Augustine will say certain things. And it's really important for us to remember what he said in..."
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"...to believe this. So Augustine feels compelled to write the City of God to explain the sack and why Christianity is a true faith...."
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"...but apparently he was illiterate every day he had the city of God read to him. That's how much he loved city of God...."
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Jiang makes the Iran war a test of religious prediction: if Al-Aqsa survives and peace arrives, his model fails.
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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