Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

ISBN 9780895269416

Uitgever Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1985. Paperback. xxiii,358 pp. Conditie: goed

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Extra informatie - 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, 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.