Augustine: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) 1st Edition by Augustine (PDF)

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This collection brings together thirty-five letters and sermons of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430 AD, that deal with political matters. The letters and sermons are both practical and principled and treat many essential themes in Augustine’s thought, including the responsibilities of citizenship, the relationship between the church and secular authority, religious coercion, and war and peace. These texts complement Augustine’s classic The City of God against the Pagans (also available in the Cambridge Texts series), and give students direct insight into the political and social world of late antiquity with which Augustine was immediately involved. The slave trade, tax collection, clerical harassment and murder are amongst the topics with which he deals. The volume contains clear, accurate modern translations, together with a concise introduction and informative notes designed to aid the student encountering Augustine’s life and thought for the first time.

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⭐Augustine is one of the leading theologians of the Latin church, whose famous “Confessions” and “City of God” are mainstays of Catholic high school and college theology courses. This is the other Augustine, swimming in the water’s of Roman Imperial power, even if these waters are growing more shallow every passing year. By his life’s end, Augustine will see “barbarians” dissect his beloved Empire, and it is clear that it is his Empire. His conscience is not at all pricked when he calls out for the troops to protect his recently established Latin orthodoxy from various heretics. Every reader of the “Confessions” should read this very telling tome.

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