Two Kingdoms & Two Cities: Mapping Theological Traditions of Church, Culture, and Civil Order

Two Kingdoms and Two Cities lays out the recent trends in Christian political theology and their connections to past traditions. In particular, the recent emergence of "two kingdoms" and "two cities" approaches to Christian social thinking are shown to have a key—and often unacknowledged—connection to Luther's reshaping of the Augustinian paradigm. The project works for a better understanding of Luther's own thought to help understand the convergences and divergences of Christian political theology in the twentieth century and today.