This important collection reveals that Augustine's political thought drew on and diverged from the classical tradition, contributing to the study of questions at the center of all Western political thought.

• Frontcover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1. Politics, Nature, and Virtue
  • 1 St. Augustine and the Problem of Political Ethics in The City of God
  • 2 The Other Happy Life: The Political Dimensions to St. Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues
  • 3 Peace in the Order of Nature: Augustine, Giles, and Dante
  • 4 Deeds and Words: Latreia, Justice, and Mercy in Augustine’s Political Thought
  • 5 The Investigation of Justice in Augustine’s Confessions
• Part 2. St. Augustine and Ancient Political Philosophy
• 6 The Few, the Many, and the Universal Way of Salvation: Augustine’s Point of Engagement with Platonic Political Thought
• 7 Echoes and Adaptations in Augustine’s Confessions of Plato’s Teaching on Art and Politics in the Republic
• 8 Truth, Lies, Deception, Esotericism: The Case of St. Augustine
• 9 Augustine’s Ciceronian Response to the Ciceronian Patriot
• 10 Augustine’s City of God and Roman Sacral Politics
• 11 Augustine and Platonic Political Philosophy: The Contribution of Joseph Ratzinger
• Notes on Contributors
• Index