Gregory Lee – The Essential City of God

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Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Episode: Gregory Lee talks with Amy Brown Hughes about one of the more well-known but little-understood books in theology, Augustine’s The City of God! This episode covers everything from political theology, […] The post Gregory Lee – The Essential City of God first appeared on OnScript.

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1:06.0	Hello, friends. Welcome to OnScript. This is Amy Amy Brown Hughes, a co-host for the podcast with
1:12.7	Matt Lynch, Matt Bates, Aaronheim, Drew Johnson, Chris Tilling, and Jules Martinez-Olivieri.
1:18.2	Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Gregory Lee, Associate Professor of Theology
1:22.6	and Urban Studies at Wheaton College, Senior Fellow for the Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies,
1:27.9	and teaching pastor at Lawndale Christian Community Church. He is the author of several
1:32.5	publications on Augustine, including, most recently, The Essential City of God, a reader and
1:37.2	commentary published in 2025 with Baker Academic. His current book project, Christians among the
1:42.9	corrupt, Augustine, race, and the
1:44.6	challenge of immoral communities critically retrieves Augustine's understanding of church and
1:49.5	society to address contemporary issues of race and Christian unity. I am excited for this
1:55.1	interview, not only because I've known Greg for a long time and he is very cool, but also because
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