Sacred and Secular

Contents: The Latin Fathers; The sacred and the secular: from Augustine to Gregory the Great; De ciuitate dei: pride and the common good; Refusing to bless the state: prophetic Church and secular state; Saint Augustine’s views on the ’just war’; The end of the Roman empire: a note on Eugippius; Justinian’s ecclesiastical politics and the Western Church; Gregory the Great on Kings: rulers and preachers in the Commentary on I Kings; Pelagianism: Britain and the continent; Chronicle and theology: Prosper of Aquitaine; The legacy of Pelagius: orthodoxy, heresy and conciliation; From Caesarius to Boniface: Christianity and paganism in Gaul; The problem of ’Donatism’ in the 6th century; Saint Augustine on signs; Alienatio: philosophy and eschatology in the development of an Augustine idea; Imago and similitudo in Augustine; The eclipse of a neo-platonic theme: Augustine and Gregory the Great on visions and prophecies; Conversion and disenchantment in Augustine’s spiritual career; Augustine’s Confessions and the controversy with Julian of Eclanum: Manicheism revisited; Index.