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Scott Carr, Jr.
Sep 1, 20204 min read
Augustine 2020: What About Evil in the Earthly City?
Augustine now turns his attention more specifically to the city of God and begins with a fascinating discussion of that city’s first...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Aug 25, 20204 min read
Augustine 2020: Worship vs. Politics
We now come to the final book in The City of God’s second section that has, in my opinion, been the most challenging aspect of...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Aug 18, 20204 min read
Augustine 2020: Alternative Facts and the Christian
We now come to a significant question in engaging politics and, indeed, a key question for Christian thought in general: what is the...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Aug 11, 20204 min read
Augustine 2020: The Spiritual Political Struggle
Augustine’s argument in Book VII of The City of God is even more foreign to us than that of Book VI. In it, Augustine argues against a...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Aug 4, 20205 min read
Augustine 2020: In God We Trust?
"Civic theology" is how faith is talked about in politics. How do we think about America's Christian heritage? What is good about Christia
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 28, 20205 min read
Augustine 2020: Free Will, Providence, Politics, Oh My!
We are going to begin to nuance and clarify our comments last week on what it means for America to be an earthly city by asking,...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 21, 20204 min read
Augustine 2020: But Great Robber Bands
“Without justice, what are kingdoms but great robber bands? What are robber bands but small kingdoms? The band is itself made up of men,...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 14, 20204 min read
Augustine 2020: America, the Earthly City
Book III of Augustine’s monumental work, The City of God, is an essential exploration of themes for the questions of his day but is...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 7, 20204 min read
Augustine 2020: What to Expect of the Earthly City
As we continue into Book II of The City of God, Augustine begins to address the declining morals of the city of Rome in his own day....
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 30, 20204 min read
Augustine 2020: Political Puzzle Pieces
Augustine’s most significant writing on political theology is a large volume entitled The City of God. Its importance in Christian...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 23, 20204 min read
Augustine 2020: Augustine on the Campaign Trail
As Christians approach the 2020 election, a variety of questions are in the air, being discussed by families at dining room tables,...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 12, 20194 min read
Are Humans "Thinking Things"?
James K. A Smith criticizes modern philosophy for reducing humans to “brains-on-a-stick” (Smith 3). He particularly singles out Rene...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
May 8, 20192 min read
Christians and Government
Government exists to order society and to ensure the obedience of its citizens (Augustine 157). It orders goods given by God “suitable...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Nov 20, 20187 min read
Vainglory
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung’s recent volume, Vainglory: The Forgotten Vice, provides a necessary exploration of vainglory, a vice absent...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Nov 13, 20182 min read
Moral Majority
The social upheaval of the 1960s, the creation of American civil religion, and Cold War tensions set the scene for the rise of the...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Nov 15, 20173 min read
Preaching Like Augustine
St. Augustine of Hippo’s treatise on preaching, On Christian Doctrine, has a number of parallels to St. John Chrystostom’s On the...
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