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TITLE
Eucharistic Kingdom: Augustine's Understanding of Community in Civitas Dei
DATE:
Thursday, June 19, 2003
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DESCRIPTION
The talk draws the audience into the running debate on interpreting St. Augustine's great work. There is an essentially Libertarian and Protestant reading which asserts that Augustine is a political skeptic whose in his mature years saw no definite Christian community on earth that one could associate with the City of God.. Thus, the best a community can do is to keep in front of the minds of the faithful that the City of God is not here and that close associations between the Faith and the Political order are dangerous, only to be evoked to avoid greater evils. This, of course, neglects the social ramifications of the Incarnation and facilitates man's alienation from his fellow man and his alienation from traditional Christianity.
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