City of God

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Instead he adopts St. Augustine’s anthropology and depicts the new seekers of the City of Man usurping the old believers in the City of God.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Security forces targeted not only the Mare complex of favelas by Rio’s international airport, but also the adjacent Vila Cruzeiro neighborhood and the City of God neighborhood on the city’s opposite side.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023

Perhaps the most influential of these was The City of God, which he wrote in response to the Visigoths’ sack of Rome in 410.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

“We really just wanted to represent the Empire State of Mind and the City of God tonight,” she said.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2022

Another argument was put forward by St. Augustine in his book The City of God.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking