Civitas Dei by Lionel Curtis

Civitas Dei by Lionel Curtis

1.Introductory 2. The Genesis of the State 3. South-Eastern Asia 4. Israel 5. The Law and the Prophets 6. Hellas 7. The Principles of Monarchy and of the Commonwealth Contrasted 8. The Persian Wars 9. Rise of the Athenian Empire 10. The Greek Commonwealth as Viewed by Contemporaries 11. Fall of the Athenian Empire 12. Alexander the Great 13. Rome 14. Interactions of Jewish and Roman History 15. The Kingdom of God: Transcendental and Realist Conceptions 16. The Ivory Gate 17. Contact of Jewish and Greek Ideas in Palestine 18 & 19. The Gate of Horn 20. The Commonwealth of God 21. Jesus in Conflict with Judaism 22. The Story of the Resurrection 23. Reversion of the Church to the Basis of Authority 24. Judaism Freed From Its Limitations 25. The Church Militant 26. The Church Triumphant 27. Islam 28. The Holy Roman Empire 29. The Principle of Authority in Application 30. Saxons and Norsemen 31. The Commonwealth Raised to the National Scale 32. Reactions on Character 33. Recapitulation.

Original Review of Civitas Dei:

‘…a gospel of democracy…’ LA. Garrard, The Journal of Theological Studies, Vol 39, No. 156 (1938)

‘…The conclusions have significance in view of the fact that Mr. Curtis, as a practical politician during the past thirty years, working on South African, Indian and Irish affairs, has had a direct influence on the transformation of Empire into Commonwealth.’ Robert Gale Woolbert, Foreign Affairs (1938)

‘…exhaustive in scope, historical and philosophical in purpose…’ Clarence A. Berdahl, American Political Science Review (1939).

Lionel Curtis (1872–1955) was a British internationalist and author. He was the inspiration for the foundation of The Royal Institute of International Affairs as well as the US Council on Foreign Relations. He was a leading member of the Round Table Movement.