Classical Christianity and the political order Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
I	Augustine and Aquinas on Christianity and Politics
1	The Political Thought of St. Augustine	1
2	Political Idealism and Christianity in the Thought of St. Augustine	31
3	The Political Implications of St. Augustine's Theory of Conscience	65
4	Augustine and Roman Civil Religion: Some Critical Reflections	85
5	Augustine, Spinoza, and the Hermeneutical Problem	107
6	Augustine's City of God and the Modern Historical Consciousness	117
7	Augustine and the Problem of Modernity	137
8	The Political Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas	151
9	Politics and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Aristotelian Revolution	177
10	Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and the Problem of Natural Law	199
II	Natural Law and Individual Rights
11	Natural Law and Social Justice	223
12	On the Presumed Medieval Origin of Individual Rights	243
13	The New Rights Theory and the Natural Law	265
III	Leo Strauss and the Revival of Classical Political Philosophy
14	Rational Theologians and Irrational Philosophers: A Straussian Perspective	287
15	Faith and Reason in Contemporary Perspective: Apropos of a Recent Book	297
16	Between the Lines: Was Leo Strauss a Secret Enemy of Morality?	317
17	Straussian Reflections on the Strauss-Voegelin Correspondence	329
18	Nietzsche and the Crisis of Nihilism	337
IV	Selected Reviews
	Christianity and Political Philosophy	355
	A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory	360
	La Croissance solidaire des droits de l'homme	362
	Chretiens marxistes et theologie de la liberation and Eglise de France, prends garde de perdre la foi	366
	On Synthesizing Marxism and Christianity	369
	The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine	371
	Select Bibliography	375
	Index	387
	About the Author	401
	About the Editor	402