Worshiping in Public: Theological Justice and the <i>Res Publica</i> in <i>City of God</i> 19
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Abstract
Abstract: In this article I trace an interpretation of City of God, book 19, that acknowledges the intrinsic relationship between Augustine's account of justice and worship within his critique of the Roman commonwealth. This interpretation of book 19 suggests that justice, defined theologically by Augustine, remains a necessary criterion for the existence of a truly public social community, which in turn limits the possibility of constructing an Augustinian politics divorced from the theological forms of critique that his account entails. The arguments of book 19 remain consistent with Augustine's overall attempt in the City of God to claim that the proper worship of the heavenly city (in which Israel and the Church are in direct lineage) mediates the only sufficient curative to the pursuits of glory and domination instantiated by the idolatries of the earthly city. This account more adequately acknowledges Augustine's theological commitments as the animators of his remarks about political entities while also questioning the sufficiency of any “political Augustinianism” that does not include the overall theological critique of City of God as among its primary purposes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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