The City of God
167Walls (Part 1)
3 Jul 2023
42:40¶ 122
“My brain keeps going to Abraham. In his whole story he was going from city to city seeing these cultures and seeing what his…”
43:07¶ 123
“Even with Romulus and Remus, they had everything in common they could possibly have, and they found differences. Every city, if you look hard…”
43:43¶ 124
“Excellent points, and we are headed in our discussion toward that city. That’s where this is going to end up. Yes, while the pagans…”
155The Lord is There
30 Jan 2023
35:21¶ 104
“It’s the city of God. We somehow lost the temple in the city. Well, surprise surprise. You get to Revelation 21 and we’re told…”
18:31¶ 54
“The city of God, such as it was, the Hebrew people and the church, existed to bring forth this new human community that will…”
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…”
142The City of God Revisited
31 Oct 2022
29:52¶ 103
“All this time we’ve been reading about that city that the prophets and the psalms called Zion. It’s the City of the Lord. It…”
0:21¶ 2
“Today we’re revisiting a topic that we’ve touched on several times. In fact, as Greg was pointing out earlier, it’s kind of implicit in…”
2:14¶ 6
“The Old Testament called it a number of things, Israel for one, but as the prophets look forward beyond historic Israel, they used words…”
30Repairing the Timeline
26 Jul 2020
8:44¶ 41
“So don’t hesitate to reference Augustine as we talk today about the necessity of timelines, because a lot of what Augustine was doing was…”
9:14¶ 42
“Also speaking of the timelines thing, what I find great is that he’ll spend an entire book just going through the pagans’ own history…”
7:49¶ 39
“The City of God by St. Augustine, on which I made very good progress two weeks ago and have not made progress since. I…”
19He Looked For a City
10 May 2020
4:33¶ 25
“Cultivating curiosity, good words. He looked for a city, not in the sense that he expected there to be a city over the next…”
9:56¶ 37
“What we’re seeing is that Abram was already busy living a godly life before a watching world, and by his virtue, by the public…”
11:41¶ 41
“When we get to the writer of Hebrews, he says, “Yeah, he was looking for the city.” So whether Abraham ever used those words…”
14Noah, the Culture Bearer
5 Apr 2020
23:15¶ 82
“Bryan was mentioning Rome and Greece, the collapses of classic civilization, and aside from the Bible, the great book that shifted people’s thinking was…”
23:47¶ 83
“Augustine has to say, “You mean the gods of fallen Troy that had to be carried by hand to found this new Rome of…”
23:54¶ 84
“But then he goes on beyond that and discusses the difference between fatalism on the one hand, and--well, Locke--contingency on the other hand, and…”
12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress
22 Mar 2020
31:29¶ 114
“When we come to Saint Augustine over against a pagan culture, Saint Augustine writes The City of God. What he does, after discussing why…”
32:01¶ 115
“We’re not talking myth. We’re not talking legend. We’re not talking some kind of upper story or upper category experience. We’re not talking connotation…”
32:28¶ 116
“He began the story, and it is a story. He moves it to Jesus, who is the point of the story, and from there…”