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The essays in this volume take stock of recent scholarly developments and revisit old assumptions about the significance of Augustine of Hippo for political thought. They do so from many different perspectives, examining the anthropological and theological underpinnings of Augustine's thought, his critique of politics, his development of his own political thought, and some of the later manifestations or uses of his thought in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and today. This new vision is at once more bracing, more hopeful, and more diverse than earlier readings could have allowed

United inwardly by love / Phillip Cary -- Truthfulness as the bond of society / Robert P. Kennedy -- Friendship as personal, social, and theological virtue in Augustine / Kim Paffenroth -- Freedom beyond our choosing / David C. Schindler -- Between the two cities--political action in Augustine of Hippo / Robert Dodaro -- Democracy and its demons / Michael Hanby -- Local politics--the political place of the household in Augustine's City of God / Kevin L. Hughes -- Augustine and the politics of monasticism / Thomas F. Martin -- The glory and tragedy of politics / Thomas W. Smith -- Toward a contemporary Augustinian understanding of politics / Todd Breyfogle -- Sexual purity, "the faithful," and religious reform in eleventh-century Italy / Louis I. Hamilton -- The enchanted city of man--the State and the market in Augustinian perspective / Eugene McCarraher -- Machiavelli's city of God--civic humanism and Augustinian terror / Paul Wright