‘T hat should keep you busy,” an Amtrak conductor commented as he saw my already-worn copy of Saint Augustine’s City of God in front of me shortly after boarding in Baltimore for New York ...

Today marks three months since Pope Leo XIV first appeared on the central balcony of the Vatican basilica after being elected ...

Theodor E. Mommsen, St. Augustine and the Christian Idea of Progress: The Background of the City of God, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Jun., 1951), pp. 346-374 ...

When Vice President JD Vance met Pope Leo XIV in May, he gave the pope a copy of St. Augustine’s book “City of God,” and I confess — I thought he was trolling him.

History of Political Thought (HPT) is a quarterly journal which was launched in 1980 to fill a genuine academic need for a forum for work in this multidisciplinary area. Although a subject central to ...

St. Augustine’s City of God remains, to this day, an enormously important book — one whose impact may be felt in every age.

In the “City of God,” St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. The Emperor angrily demanded of him, “How dare you molest the seas?” To which the pirate ...