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.  

• “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 on Justifying Coercion”

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