Major Works

• The Free Choice of the Will (395)

  - De Libero Arbitrio Voluntatis in On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings. Trans., Peter King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
  Excerpt: “Book One EVODIUS: Please tell me: isn’t God the cause of evil? AUGUSTINE: I will tell you once you have made clear what kind of evil you are asking… More

Commentary

• “St Augustine’s Attitude to Religious Coercion”

  - Brown, Peter. “St Augustine’s Attitude to Religious Coercion.” Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 54 (1964), pp. 107-16.  
  Excerpt: “Augustine had to face the issue of religious coercion throughout his episocpate, and especially in his dealings with the Donatist schism. As far as I know, he is the only writer in the Early Church to discuss the subject at length. He even… More

• “The Origins and Dynamics of Society and the State According to St. Augustine”

  - MacQueen, D.J. “The Origins and Dynamics of Society and the State According to St. Augustine.” Augustinian Studies, Vol. 4 (1973), pp. 73-101.  

• “Augustine and Roman Civil Religion: Some Critical Reflections”

  - Fortin, Ernest L. “Augustine and Roman Civil Religion: Some Critical Reflections.” Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes, Vol. 25 (1980), pp. 238-56.

• “Augustine and Aquinas on Original Sin and the Function of Political Authority”

  - Weithman, P.J. “Augustine and Aquinas on Original Sin and the Function of Political Authority.” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 30 (1992), pp. 353-76.  
  Excerpt:   “THE REDISCOVERY OF Aristotelian moral thought in the thirteenth century influenced medieval political theory profoundly. Recovery of Aristotle’s Politics,’ for example, made available to political theorists of the period… More

• “The Problem of Service to Unjust Regimes in Augustine’s City of God”

  - Burnell, Peter. “The Problem of Service to Unjust Regimes in Augustine’s City of God.” Journal of the History of Ideals, Vol. 54 (1993), pp. 177-88.  
  Excerpt: “The ethical principles of civil life were matters of great concern to Augustine, but his opinions (actual or supposed) in this area, and two in particular, have tended to be unattractive to the contemporary mind: his undoubted support of… More

• “Augustine on Justifying Coercion”

  - Bowlin, John. “Augustine on Justifying Coercion.” Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, Vol. 17 (1997), pp. 49-70.  

• “The Gift and the Lie: Augustine on Lying”

  - Griffiths, Paul. “The Gift and the Lie: Augustine on Lying.” Communio, Vol. 26 (1999), pp. 3-30.  

• Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine’s Letters

  - Ebbeler, Jennifer. Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine’s Letters. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.  
  From the Publisher: “Disciplining Christians reconsiders several of Augustine’s most well-known letter exchanges, including his famously controversial correspondence with Jerome and his efforts to engage his Donatist rivals in a letter exchange.… More