The Pelagian Controversy
In Our Time
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The Battle for the Church Now Power
John Mill says the church now power should be formed. He sees Augustine as neither refusing Rome or secular life, nor sort of over-sacrallising it in the way that Eusebius had done before him. One could almost say that Augustine invents the idea of the social space, is not reducible to the political space. But I think he thinks both in terms of society and has a new sense of the temporality of our social existence which exceeds the mere rise and fall of empires.
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