ABSTRACT
The newly quickened interest in political philosophy in recent years owes much to the pioneering work of the late Professor Leo Strauss of the University of Chicago and to the large band of followers who today occupy significant posi tions in American universities in all parts of the nation. The friends of political wisdom and sanity can only doff their hats in gratitude at the careful demolition of philosophical positivism undertaken at the hands of the school of Leo Strauss. But with so much said there nonetheless remains a curious lacuna in the thought and even in the interests of the Straussians that has puzzled outsiders for some years. Why do these men skirt Christian political philosophy as though it were a body of speculation unworthy of serious considera tion? Their books and their articles, replete with references to classical antiquity, not only span Greece but they probe the modern mind from Machiavelli to Locke and beyond. We can note as well a fascination and peculiar reverence for the figure of Averroes.1 But very little is taught us about the contribution, if any, of Christian thought to politics.2
