Abstract:In his The City of God vol. 15 and 16, Augustine discussed the idea of “the Son of Resurrection”, expounding the relationship between ‘the hope to pray in the name of God’ and the doctrine of Church, and discoursing the meaning of Church as a stay of the city on the earth. This assay indicates the evangelical nature of the church in the view of historical philosophy of Augustine, namely church being the flowing Tent of love. Augustine further expressed this evangelical love as the responsibility of citizens, warning the church not only against the relationship of itself and the world power, but also against the limit of interference the heaven power in the world power in the name of God. Augustine explained the historic nature of “God for us” according to his understanding of church from the view of gospel.
石敏敏. 论奥古斯丁《上帝之城》的教会历史观念[J]. 浙江工商大学学报, 2015, (1): 33-40.
SHI Minmin. On the Idea of Church History of Augustine in The City of God. Journal of Zhejing Gongshang University, 2015, (1): 33-40.