# “Otherworldly in the world” by Peter Brown

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2009/02/28/otherworldly-in-the-world-by-peter-brown/
- Published: 2009-02-28T21:39:07-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“The _City of God_, far from being a book about flight from the world, is a book
whose recurrent theme is ‘our business within this common mortal life’; it is a 
book about being otherworldly in the world.”

–Peter Brown, _[Augustine of Hippo: A Biography](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520227573?tag=toletaupanre-20)_
[ ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520227573?tag=toletaupanre-20)(Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press, 1967/2000), 324.

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