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Augustine and Politics
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2005
Summary
The study of Augustine's political teachings has suffered from a history of misreadings, both ancient and modern. It is only in recent years that the traditional lines of 'Augustinian pessimism' have been opened to question. Scholars have begun to explore the broader lines of Augustine's political thought in his letters and sermons, and thus have been able to place his classic text, The City of God, in its proper context. The essays in this volume take stock of these recent developments and revisit old assumptions about the significance of Augustine of Hippo for political thought. They do so from many different perspectives, examining the anthropological and theological underpinnings of Augustine's thought, his critique of politics, his development of his own political thought, and some of the later manifestations or uses of his thought in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and today. This new vision is at once more bracing, more hopeful, and more diverse than earlier readings could have allowed.
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Copyright year
2005
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1009-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5216-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
385
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of the Contents No access
Dedicatory Preface No access
Introduction John Doody, Kevin L. Hughes, and Kim Paffenroth No access
1 United Inwardly by Love: Augustine's Social Ontology Phillip Cary No access
2 Truthfulness as the Bond of Society Robert P. Kennedy No access
3 Friendship as Personal, Social, and Theological Virtue in Augustine Kim Paffenroth No access
4 Freedom Beyond Our Choosing: Augustine on the Will and Its Objects David C. Schindler No access
5 Between the Two Cities: Political Action in Augustine of Hippo Robert Dodaro, O.S.A. No access
6 Democracy and Its Demons Michuel Hanbv No access
7 Local Politics: The Political Place of the Household in Augustine's City of God Kevin L. Hughes No access
8 Augustine and the Politics of Monasticism Thomas F. Martin, O.S.4. No access
9 The Glory and Tragedy of Politics Thomas W. Smith No access
10 Toward a Contemporary Augustinian Understanding of Politics Todd Breyfogle No access
11 Sexual Purity, "The Faithful," and Religious Reform in Eleventh-Century Italy: Donatism Revisited Louis I. Hamilton No access
12 The Enchanted City of Man: The State and the Marketin Augustinian Perspective Eugene McCarraher No access
13 Machiavelli's City of God: Civic Humanism and Augustinian Terror Paul R. Wright No access
Bibliography No access Pages 337 - 354
Index of Citations No access Pages 355 - 362
Index of Subjects No access Pages 363 - 374
Index of Modern Authors No access Pages 375 - 378
Index of Biblical Citations No access Pages 379 - 380
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 381 - 385
