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Augustine and politics / edited by John Doody, Kevin L. Hughes, and Kim Paffenroth.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Augustine in conversation Augustine and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Political and social views.
- Augustine.
- Political science--History--To 1500.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Lexington Books, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this volume take stock of recent scholarly 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.
- Contents:
- Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Table of the Contents; Dedicatory Preface; Introduction John Doody, Kevin L. Hughes, and Kim Paffenroth; Part I. Human Nature and Virtue in Relation to Politics; 1 United Inwardly by Love: Augustine's Social Ontology Phillip Cary; 2 Truthfulness as the Bond of Society Robert P. Kennedy; 3 Friendship as Personal, Social, and Theological Virtue in Augustine Kim Paffenroth; 4 Freedom Beyond Our Choosing: Augustine on the Will and Its Objects David C. Schindler; Part II. Augustine's Theory and Critique of Politics
- 5 Between the Two Cities: Political Action in Augustine of Hippo Robert Dodaro, O.S.A.6 Democracy and Its Demons Michuel Hanbv; 7 Local Politics: The Political Place of the Household in Augustine's City of God Kevin L. Hughes; 8 Augustine and the Politics of Monasticism Thomas F. Martin, O.S.4.; 9 The Glory and Tragedy of Politics Thomas W. Smith; Part III. Augustinian Influence and Perspectives; 10 Toward a Contemporary Augustinian Understanding of Politics Todd Breyfogle; 11 Sexual Purity, ""The Faithful,"" and Religious Reform in Eleventh-Century Italy: Donatism Revisited Louis I. Hamilton
- 12 The Enchanted City of Man: The State and the Marketin Augustinian Perspective Eugene McCarraher13 Machiavelli's City of God: Civic Humanism and Augustinian Terror Paul R. Wright; Bibliography; Index of Citations; Index of Subjects; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Biblical Citations; About the Editors and Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798765184462
- 0-7391-0556-6
- 0-7391-5216-5
- OCLC:
- 855969751
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