The Political and Social Ideas of Saint Augustine

A critical essay on St. Augustine’s social and political thought.

In describing Augustine, the author captures the essence of the man in these “Genius he had in full measure… he is the master of the phrase or the sentence that embodies a penetrating insight, a flash of lightning that illuminates the entire sky; he is the rhetorician, the epigrammist, the polemicist, but not the patient, logical systematic philosopher.”