Ancient city as religious community
172Recommendations
14 Aug 2023
4:51¶ 17
“The concept that religion is so closely-knit with the idea of a city is so true. Ancient civilizations and their cities would center their…”
5:28¶ 20
“So yes, walls and cities do have a close tie to religion. Abraham looked for a city which had foundations, rules, laws, and religion…”
6:16¶ 22
“Can I interrupt and comment? I so appreciate this because it brought to mind ancient Greece. The Greek word nomos, where we get taxonomy…”
168Walls (Part 2)
10 Jul 2023
4:51¶ 15
“I’m going to get that some day. As far as I know he’s not a Christian. Maybe he is and I just don’t know…”
4:21¶ 12
“When I ask my students, “What is the nature of a city?” they will tell me all sorts of things and generally we have…”
5:20¶ 16
“Our modern secularized world would like to pretend that that’s not the case, that you don’t need a religion, that a mere common freeway…”
155The Lord is There
30 Jan 2023
6:31¶ 20
“He probably had read The Ancient City by Fustel De Coulanges, because that’s very much Coulanges’ approach. Yes, he even quotes Coulanges at points.…”
21:16¶ 62
“We’ve talked a great deal in the past about the ancient concept of the city of man, as in fact a city of the…”
21:44¶ 63
“Alexander complicated things by conquering half the world, and then they had to decide, “Wait, now who makes the rules? We have so many…”
18Faith, Community, and Justification
3 May 2020
3:01¶ 7
“But when we come to the city, we have the same kind of thing, where the families look back to a common ancestor and…”
3:32¶ 8
“It was only as the Greek city-states found ancestors even further back that they were able to get along together to any degree, because…”
4:06¶ 11
“And there the similarity completely ends and we have to decide whether or not we have to hate each other now because our religions…”