concerns and questions of the secular society on the one hand and the data contained in revelation and tradition on the other. But Augustine’s style is not the least correlationist or accommodationist. He is not looking for a way to make the social theory of Rome compatible with an interiorized Christian piety; rather, he is attempting to show that what passes for justice and right social order in Rome is in fact fraudulent and that the church alone represents the right political vision.16 Though