Augustine said, "Love God and do what you will." Rather than encourage license, the statement reflects the fifth-century Catholic bishop’s belief that people who truly love God will desire to bring all their actions into line with His will. Augustine drew a distinction between symbolic citizenship in the city of Babylon and the city of Jerusalem. Residents of the former are lovers of pleasure, the world, and themselves. Inhabitants of the latter are lovers of God who desire to submit to His law. "Let each one question himself as to what he loveth," Augustine wrote, "and he shall find of which [city] he is a citizen."lO
Contemporary adherents to divine will morality may be less metaphorical, but they are equally convinced that ethics is a branch of theology. Along with the players in the rock opera Godspell, they pray the centuries-old prayer to