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CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
AUGUSTINE: POLITICAL WRITINGS
This collection brings together thirty-five letters and sermons of
Augustine, bishop of Hippo from to , 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 harass-
ment, 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.
. . is Lecturer in Theology at Trinity and All Saints College,
Leeds. She co-edited (with M. T. Griffin) and translated Cicero, On
Duties for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
().
. . is Professor of Patristic Theology and Vice-President at
the Patristic Institute, the Augustinianum, Rome. He is the co-editor of
Augustine and his Critics (with G. Lawless, ).
CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Series editors
R G, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Q S, Regius Professor of Modern History in the
University of Cambridge
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought is now firmly estab-
lished as the major student textbook series in political theory. It aims to
make available to students all the most important texts in the history of
western political t