Augustine is big on dual citizenship. His aim isn’t to make us better citizens of our country, but to make us citizens of the City of God.

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The Classical Journal publishes scholarly articles on Greek and Latin language and literature and on all other aspects of classical studies, together with book reviews. Its Forum section features ...

The fall of Rome was the 9/11 of the ancient world; Alaric, its Osama bin Laden. As the "eternal city" crumbled, Augustine of Hippo pointed Christians to the City of God—the eternal church on ...

Yet Augustine, whose thought (especially as expounded in his massive City of God) dominated the Middle Ages, never advocated such a system. Orosius, one of his students, did.

Theodor E. Mommsen, St. Augustine and the Christian Idea of Progress: The Background of the City of God, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Jun., 1951), pp. 346-374 ...

St. Augustine left us several masterpieces, two of the best known are his autobiography, entitled “Confessions,” and “The City of God.” ...