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TeSelle examines the theme of St. Augustines two cities against the background of the ancient worlds civic vision, with the polis as the chief model for political life. Against most interpreters assumptions, TeSelle shows that the sojourner, while not fully at home in the earthly city, is nowhere understood as an alien and thus has certain rights and responsibilities in the earthly city.

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Living in Two Cities:
Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought
BY
Eugene TeSelle
Scranton: University of Scranton Press
1998 By the University of Scranton Press
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
TeSelle, Eugene, 1931
Living in two cities: Augustinian trajectories in political
thought / by Eugene TeSelle.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0-940866-68-4 (hc.). - ISBN 0-940866-69-2 (pbk.)
1. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo-Contributions in political
science. I. Title.
JC121.A8T47 1998
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Distribution:
University of Toronto Press
2250 Military Road
Tonawanda, New York 14150
800-565-9523
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO PENNY
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Abbreviations
xv
Chapter 1 Augustine's Political Journey
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1. Upward Mobility
2. The Lure of Contemplation
3. Reentering the Active Live
4. The Writing of The City of God
Chapter 2 The Civic Vision in Its Ancient Setting
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1. The City as a Living Community
2. The Ideal and the Reality of the Polis
3. The Birth of Empire
4. The City of God
5. Relating the Two Cities
Chapter 3 The Sojourner: Neither a Citizen nor an Alien
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1. The Peregrinus in the Ancient City
2. Augustine's Understanding of Peregrinatio
 3. The Way of the Traveler
4. Rituals of Liminality
Chapter 4 Toward an Augustinian Politics
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1. Justice or Love?
2. The Viability of the Christian Ethic
3. The Social World of a Captive Humanity
4. Liberalism versus Communitarianism Today
Chapter 5 The Analogy of Peace
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1. Why Peace?
2. Domestic Peace in the Ancient World
3. Conflict and Peace
Chapter 6 Looking for the Civic Bond
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1. The Ordering Process
2. Political Community
3. Politics as Distribution
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Chapter 7 Purposive Action and Human Fulfillment
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1. The Quest for Fulfillment
2. The Limits of Politics
3. The Context of Purposive Action
Bibliography
167
Index of Modern Authors
207
Topical Index
211
Scriptural Citations Index
219
Index of Passages Cited
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Scripture
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Ancient and Medieval Writers
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Augustine's Works
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