Augustine and Modern Law

Contents: Introduction; Selected bibliography, Carl Yirka; Part I Augustine: His Life and His World: The life and religion of Saint Augustine, Whitney J. Oates; Life, culture and controversies of Augustine, Robert Markus. Part II Two Cities: Justice in the Early and Divine Community: A Two Cities: The two cities in Augustine's political philosophy, Rex Martin; The origin and dynamics of society and the state according to St Augustine, D.J. MacQueen; B. Justice: Augustine's critique of human justice, Gaylon L. Caldwell; Justice as the foundation of the political community: Augustine and his pagan models, Ernest L. Fortin; C. Church-State Relations: The problem of service to unjust regimes in Augustine's City of God, Peter Burnell; Pluralism and secularism in the political order: St Augustine and theoretical liberalism, Michael J. White. Part III Augustine's Philosophy of Political Authority and Law: The fundamental ideas in St Augustine's philosophy of law, Anton- Hermann Chroust; Two conceptions of political authority: Augustine, De Civitate Dei xix. 14-15, and some 13th-century interpretations, R.A. Markus; Roman law in the works of St Augustine, Francesco Lardone. Part IV Selected Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence and Political Theory: A. Augustine's Political Realism: Will and Order: the moral self in Augustine's De Libero Arbitrio, Eric O. Springsted; Augustine's political realism, Reinhold Niebuhr; B. Augustine's Historical Vision: St Augustine and the Christian idea of progress: the background of the City of God, Theodor E. Mommsen; Augustine's philosophy of history, R¼diger Bittner; C. Interpretation and Rhetoric: Augustine's Confessions and the poetics of law, Eugene Vance; Augustine and the problem of Christian rhetoric, Ernest L. Fortin. Part V Applications of Augustine's Thought to Selected Legal Topics: A. Law of a Just War: Saint Augustine on war and killing: the problem of the innocent, Richard Shelley Hartigan; Coge intrare: the Church and po