Peter Iver Kaufman is professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Redeeming Politics Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection The Polytyque Churche: Religion and Early Tudor Political Culture and Augustinian Piety and Catholic Reform as well as over 30 articles on church history.

• Introduction -- Order over Error -- Tertullian -- Leadership: Bishops, Councils, and Emperors -- Augustine -- Authority and Humility -- Conclusion