POL 409 Foundations of Christian Political Thought (Bible to Middle Ages)

Aims to acquaint students with the basic themes of Christian political thought. Locating the headwaters in Biblical Judaism and in New Testament other-worldliness, traces the two dominant, and conflicting streams of Christian political understanding: one from Augustine to the Protestant Reformers to Niebuhr, the other from Aquinas to Maritain and Simon. Political Theory.