Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index
Introduction / James Wetzel -- The history of the book : Augustine's city of God and post-roman cultural memory / Mark Vessey -- Secularity and the saeculum / Paul J. Griffiths -- Augustine's dystopia / Peter Iver Kaufman -- From rape to resurrection : sin, sexual difference, and politics / Margaret R. Miles -- Ideology and solidarity in Augustine's city of God / John Cavidini -- The theater of the virtues : Augustine's critique of pagan mimesis / Jennifer Herdt -- The psychology of compassion : stoicism in city of God 9.5 / Sarah Byers -- Augustine's rejection of eudaimonism / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Augustine on the origin of evil : myth and metaphysics / James Wetzel -- Hell and the dilemmas of intractable alienation / John Bowlin -- On the nature and worth of christian philosophy : evidence from the city of God / John Rist -- Reinventing Ausustine's ethics : the afterlife of city of God / Bonnie Kent