Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.

This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.

The City of God is the most influential of Augustine's works, which played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. This book is the first compre

Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.

A new reading of Augustine's City of God which considers the status of politics within Augustine's sacramental worldview.