Since I am a political animal, my identity is inseparable from the polity to which I belong. But in which city do I live? The City of Man or the City of God? The choice is not between a visible and an invisible city, but between an unreal and a real one. The unreal city is the one most familiar to us, the one composed of fictional individuals bound to each other and to God by choice. It is the city that “secures our rights and freedoms” and keeps us “safe,” but only through an ever-increasing tyranny. The real city is the one populated by flesh-and-blood citizens: men, women, and children embedded in the prevenient natural order, bound by the common good, their innate restlessness for the real God ever incarnating in a form of common life for the sake of the world.
Re-Source: Classic Texts
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Book Reviews
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Natural Right, Not Human Rights by Herbert E. Hartmann
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Pierre Manent, Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
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Properly Seeing the Past in Order to Imagine a Better Future by Conor B. Dugan
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Jones, Andrew Willard, The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics
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Generative Integration: Gift, Community and Creation by Daniel A. Drain
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Taylor, Michael Dominic, The Foundations of Nature: Metaphysics of Gift for an Integral Ecological Ethic
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A Tale of Two Cities, Revisited by Herbert E. Hartmann
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Gilson, Etienne, The Metamorphoses of the City of God
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Escaping the Cave of Liberalism by William P. Bednarz
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Schindler, D. C., The Politics of the Real
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