these matters. In various ways, the essays that follow take up that question once more. In some instances they seek to raise the issue of the community generally (Mount). In other cases they deal with the role of the political authority—for good or ill—in the pursuit of the common good (Cavanaugh, Porter, Skillen). Or they explore the necessity of defining the common good in relation to God’s own intentions and the community that is formed in worshipful response to God (Jenson). Given this Augustinian