According to st augustine should members of the city of god regard political power as something that was good or bad

According to St Augustine, should members of the City of God regard political power as something that was good or bad or with indifference?


St Augustine has long held a reputation as one of the most influential and important

political thinkers of all time. His ideologies and concepts which were formulated

many centuries ago, have continued to hold their weight even in our contemporary

world. It is this apparent ability to bridge the obvious cultural differences that remain

between the society that St Augustine was writing in and our far more technologically

and socially adept society that ensure that his documents relevance has not waned.

His writings, as did many of his time, focus on the significance of religion and it’s

application within the political order that existed. One of St Augustine’s most

important theories was of the existence of the ‘City of God’. To decipher how

political power should have been viewed by the members of the...