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The Intersection Of Politics And Theology: Reading Augustine In Light Of Augustine, Landon P. Wilcox
The Intersection Of Politics And Theology: Reading Augustine In Light Of Augustine, Landon P. Wilcox
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Augustine’s The City of God is a foundational theological text for the development of Christian thought across time. Over the centuries, political scientists and theologians have been especially interested in this text in a variety of ways, but for the purposes of this discussion, the focus will be on Books I-V and Book XIX. Typically, theologians have been interested in Augustine’s rebuttal of pagan claims that are found in the first five books, while political scientists focus most of their attention on Book XIX for its discussion of the highest ends of the state through the means of politics in …