Introduction. dealing in darkness? varieties of modern anti-pelagianism -- Progress: Kant, Mendelsohn and the very idea -- Bull: a double vision? -- Remember the Aeneid: (and beware Greek gifts) -- Human rights: emancipation or incarceration? -- Dystopic liberalism: realism tamed or liberalism betrayed? -- Progress with price? -- Connolly: ambiguous pluralism -- Gray: the end(s) of progress? -- Strauss: the impossibility of justice -- Elshtain 1: anti-pelagian or not? -- Elshtain 2: violence and the two sovereigns -- Post-secularism: metaphysical not political? -- Epilogue: tragedy or scepticism
