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two cities
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diagnosis
Jiang states that original Jesus would treat Eve's pursuit as correct, reversing Augustine's doctrine of pride.
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Augustine's heavenly city prizes humility and obedience while the earthly city is ruled by love of self.
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Jiang defines Catholic freedom as perfect obedience: one is free only when one cannot even think of disobeying God.
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He says Augustine structures the two cities around pride and love of self in Rome versus humility and love of God in the City of God.
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"This is why humility, humility is highly prized in the city of God and especially enjoyed on the city of God during the time..."
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"But now you have spiritual authority. Now you represent God. Now you're head of a church, right? And therefore, people can't kill you because..."
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"This is why humility is highly praised in the city of God, and especially enjoined on the city of God during the time of..."
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"Pride, ego, will. All this is found in the city of Rome. But in the city of God, the only thing that exists is..."
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"...major conflict is represented by Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. These are two cities in Israel, and they are the two major cities of Israel,..."
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"...capital of the Islamic Golden Age, the Islamic Caliphate. Okay? Historical city. Over here is Damascus. One of the oldest cities in the world...."
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"...ourselves to the glory that is God. Alright? We see the two cities were created by two kinds of love. The earthly city was..."
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"...that 90 % of all the top students would come from two cities."
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"...start to believe this. So Augustine feels compelled to write the City of God to explain the sack and why Christianity is a true..."
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"...we are a failed science experiment. We see then that the two cities were created by two kinds of love. The earthly city was..."
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"...Earth, okay? And to establish this, he writes a book called City of God. And he talks about two cities. You have Rome, which..."
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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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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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