The main concern of this book is with those aspects of Augustine's thought which help to answer questions about the purpose of human society.

The doctrine of creation is obviously one of the first things, but it is also one of the last things since the world to come is also, by definition, creation. T

This volume addresses the complex and conflicted vision in Augustine's City of God, as a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage.

The history of Christianity has been marked by tension between ideas of sacred and secular, their shifting balance, and their conflict. In Christianity and the