Major Works

• City of God Against the Pagans (427)

  - Augustine. The City of God Against the Pagans. Translated by R. W. Dyson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  Excerpt: For to this earthly city belong the enemies against whom I have to defend the city of God. Many of them, indeed, being reclaimed from their ungodly error, have become sufficiently creditable citizens of this city; but many are so inflamed with hatred… More

Commentary

• “St. Augustine’s Philosophical Theory of Law”

  - Chroust, Anton. “St. Augustine’s Philosophical Theory of Law.” Notre Dame Lawyer, Vol. 25 (1949), pp. 285-315.  

• “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’s Political Realism”

  - Niebuhr, Reinhold. “Augustine’s Political Realism” in The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr. Ed., Robert McAfee Brown. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.  
  From the Publisher: “Theologians, ethicist, and political analyst, Reinhold Neiburh, was a towering figure of twentieth-century religious thought. In this important book, the best of Neiburh’s essays have been brought together for the first time.… More

• Christian Love and Just War: Moral Paradox and Political Life in St. Augustine and his Modern Interpreters

  - Stevenson, William. Christian Love and Just War: Moral Paradox and Political Life in St. Augustine and his Modern Interpreters. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1987.  
  Excerpt: “Politics will, to the end of history, be an area where conscience and power meet, where the ethical and coercive factors of human life will interpenetrate and work out their tentative and uneasy compromises.‎”

• Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects

  - Walker, Graham. Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.  
  From the Publisher: “Graham Walker boldly recasts the debate over issues like constitutional interpretation and judicial review, and challenges contemporary thinking not only about specifically constitutional questions but also about liberalism, law,… More

• “Towards an Augustinian Politics”

  - TeSelle, Eugene. “Towards an Augustinian Politics” in The Ethics of St. Augustine. Ed. William Babcock. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991, pp. 147-68.  

• “Toward an Augustinian Liberalism”

  - Weithman, P.J. “Toward an Augustinian Liberalism.” Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 8 (1991), pp. 461-80.  
  Abstract: “Concern with the vice of pride is often thought contrary to the spirit of liberalism. Among the virtues often ascribed to liberal political institutions is their encouragement of self-assertion and a sense of self-esteem. Moreover Judith… More

• “The Status of Politics in St. Augustine’s City of God”

  - Burnell, Peter. “The Status of Politics in St. Augustine’s City of God.” History of Political Thought, Vol. 13 (1992), 13-29.  
  Excerpt: “St. Augustine regarded perfect happiness as social in nature1 but far from attainable by any society in this world:2 a combination of facts that brings into question the place of civil life in his thought. This was, indeed, a question… 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

• The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality

  - Connolly, William. The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1993.  
  From the Publisher: “An entirely new interpretation of one of the most seminal and widely read figures in the history of political thought, The Augustinian Imperative is also ‘an archaeological investigation into the intellectual foundation of… More

• “Pluralism and Secularism in the Political Order: St. Augustine and Theoretical Liberalism”

  - White, M. “Pluralism and Secularism in the Political Order: St. Augustine and Theoretical Liberalism.” The University of Dayton Review, Vol. 22 (1994), pp. 137-53.  
  Abstract (from FindingAugustine.org): “White examined the nature of Augustine’s pragmatic political philosophy in light of contemporary discussions of theoretical pluralism, secularism, liberalism and church-state separation.”

• The City of Man

  - Manent, Pierre. The City of Man. Trans. Marc LePain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.  
  From the Publisher: “The “City of God” or the “City of Man”? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago–and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this… More

• The Pilgrim City: Social and Political Ideas in the Writings of St. Augustine of Hippo

  - Dyson, R.W. The Pilgrim City: Social and Political Ideas in the Writings of St. Augustine of Hippo. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2001.  
  From the Publisher: “The political and social ideas of St Augustine of Hippo are of central importance to the historian of late classical and medieval political thought: Augustine offers a penetrating critique of the moral and political claims of… More

• Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship

  - Gregory, Eric. Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.  
  From the Publisher: “Augustine—for all of his influence on Western culture and politics—was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less… More

• “Augustine’s Glorious City of God as Principle of the Political”

  - Trainor, Brian. “Augustine’s Glorious City of God as Principle of the Political.” Heythrop Journal, Vol. 51 (2010), pp. 543-53.  
  Abstract: “In this article I take the view that Augustine presents a perceptive account of the conditions of political legitimacy, one of such depth and complexity that it deserves to be regarded as a classic of Christian political thought. I hold that… More

• 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

Multimedia

• “A Tangle of Two Cities”

  - Wetzel, James. “A Tangle of Two Cities.” Lecture delivered to Villanova University, The Saint Augustine Lecture, 2012.