"De civitate Dei." In Augustine: An Encyclopedia, 196-202. Edited by Allan Fitzgerald. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1999. Collected Essays vol. 4, 71-82. Revised version of "Justice as the Foundation of the Political Community" (1997).
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Thomas Aquinas as a Political Thinker
"Thomas Aquinas as a Political Thinker." Perspectives on Political Science 26, no. 2 (1998): 92-96. Collected Essays vol. 4, 93-102.
Review of ‘Augustine and the Limits of Politics’, by Jean Bethke Elshtain
Review of Augustine and the Limits of Politics, by Jean Bethke Elshtain. Review of Politics 59, no. 2 (Spring 1997): 365-67. Collected Essays vol. 4, 289-92.
Justice as the Foundation of the Political Community
"Justice as the Foundation of the Political Community: Augustine and His Pagan Models." In Augustinus: De civitate Dei, 41-62. Edited by Christoph Horn. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997. Revised and published as "De civitate Dei" (1999).
On the Presumed Medieval Origin of Individual Rights
"On the Presumed Medieval Origin of Individual Rights." In Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs, 86-106. Edited by Richard Hassing. Washington: Catholic University of America Press. Reprinted in Communio 26 (Spring 1999): 55-79. Collected Essays vol. 2, 243-64.
On Target: A Compendium of Fortinalia
"On Target: A Compendium of Fortinalia." Boston College Magazine 57, no. 3 (1997): 43-51.
The Enlightenment and the Church
"The Enlightenment and the Church: The Changing Configurations." CCICA Annual 16 (1997): 73-87. Collected Essays vol. 4, 137-46.
Collected Essays, vol. 1, The Birth of Philosophic Christianity
The Birth of Philosophic Christianity: Essays in Early Christian and Medieval Thought. Vol. 1 of Collected Essays. Edited by J. Brian Benestad. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996.
Foreword to ‘Augustine’s Critique of Skepticism,’ by Augustine Curley
Foreword to Augustine's Critique of Skepticism, by Augustine J. Curley. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
Christian Education and Modern Democracy
"Christian Faith and Modern Democracy." Collected Essays vol. 3, 29-47.