By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine - Five-hundred years on from the Protestant revolution and Christendom is not just dismantled, but in full apostasy. Can it be revived, and if so, how?... St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430), who was the greatest Christian philosopher of antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence, maintained that a Christian state is the only type of state where true justice can be achieved. This is because, in such a state, the body politic would rule according to Christian tenets and values, which would align the state’s laws with divine law.