Commentary

• The Political Aspects of Saint Augustine’s City of God

  - Figgis, John Neville. The Political Aspects of Saint Augustine’s City of God. London: Longmans,   Green and Co., 1921.  
  From the Publisher: “A series of lectures on the political aspects of St. Augustine’s “City of God” by John Neville Figgis. Excerpts: …There are those who are for treating S. Augustine as the typical example of the medieval… More

• 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

• “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

• “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.”

• Augustine and the Limits of Politics

  - Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Augustine and the Limits of Politics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.  
  From the Publisher: “Jean Bethke Elshtain brings Augustine’s thought into the contemporary political arena and presents an Augustine who created a complex moral map that offers space for loyalty, love, and care, as well as a chastened form of civic… More

• 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

• Augustine and Liberal Education

  - Paffenroth, Kim & Kevin Hughes, eds. Augustine and Liberal Education. Burlington: Ashgate, 2000.  
  From the Publisher: “Augustine and Liberal Education sheds light on liberal education past and present, from an Augustinian point of view. Ranging from historical investigations of particular themes and issues in the thought of Saint Augustine, to… 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 Contribution to the Republican Tradition”

  - Cornish, Paul. “Augustine’s Contribution to the Republican Tradition.” European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 9 (2010), pp. 133-148.  
  Abstract: “The present argument focuses on part of Augustine’s defense of Christianity in The City of God. There Augustine argues that the Christian religion did not cause the sack of Rome by the Goths in 410 CE. Augustine revised the definitions of… More

Multimedia

• “The Relevance of Augustine For Young Adults Today”

  - Tack, Theodore. “The Relevance of Augustine For Young Adults Today.” Lecture delivered to Villanova University, Studies in Augustinian Spirituality, 2009.  
  Description: “In this engaging lecture, Rev. Theodore Tack, OSA, will present a cogent argument for why the life of Augustine is still relevant to Villanova University and every member of the campus community. Fr. Ted has been an Augustinian for over 60… More

• “A Tangle of Two Cities”

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