Augustine of Hippo’s sprawling masterpiece The City of God, written in the early 400s, has enduring relevance for us today. I believe that its wisdom can teach us to inhabit the fractious, polarized ...

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

Yet Augustine, whose thought (especially as expounded in his massive City of God) dominated the Middle Ages, never advocated such a system. Orosius, one of his students, did.

If Oxford brings to mind cobblestones, study rooms at the top of winding stone stairs, and kettles at the ready, then Carolyn Weber’s memoir, Sex and the City of God: A Memoir of Love and ...

In City of God, Augustine famously defined a "people"--what we would today think of as a political society--as "an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the ...

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 ...

Augustine’s City of God proposes that there are two competing projects, what he called the “City of God” and the “City of Man.” Who belongs to which city is determined by our loves.

By Your gift I had come totally not to will what I willed but to will what You willed.” (IX:I, pg 198) This is Augustine reflecting on his conversion, and giving all credit to the mercy and ...

— St. Augustine, City of God 19.24 As Mr. Pecknold tweets, the full context of Augustine’s line is perhaps not as rosy as Mr. Biden might have suggested.