Sin, Free Will and Grace: The Two Cities -- The State in a Sinful World -- Private Property and Slavery -- War and Peace -- Church and State
Summary
St Augustine of Hippo was the earliest thinker to develop a distinctively Christian political and social philosophy. He does so mainly from the perspective of Platonism and Stoicism; but by introducing the biblical and Pauline conceptions of sin, grace and predestination he radically transforms the 'classical' understanding of the political. Robert Dyson's new book describes and analyses this 'transformation' in detail and shows Augustine's enormous influence upon the development of political thought down to the thirteenth century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index
