num_pages: 230
description: TeSelle examines the theme of St. Augustine's "two cities" against the background of the ancient world's 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.
language: English
title: Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought
titlecomplete: Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University of Scranton Press