Augustine and PoliticsJohn Doody, Kevin L. Hughes, Kim Paffenroth 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
United Inwardly by Love Augustines Social Ontology | 3 |
Truthfulness as the Bond of Society | 35 |
Friendship as Personal Social and Theological Virtue in Augustine | 53 |
Freedom Beyond Our Choosing Augustine on the Will and Its Objects | 67 |
Augustines Theory and Critique of Politics | 97 |
Between the Two Cities Political Action in Augustine of Hippo | 99 |
Democracy and Its Demons | 117 |
Local Politics The Political Place of the Household in Augustines City of God | 145 |
Toward a Contemporary Augustinian Understanding of Politics | 217 |
Sexual Purity The Faithful and Religious Reform in EleventhCentury Italy Donatism Revisited | 237 |
The Enchanted City of Man The State and the Market in Augustinian Perspective | 261 |
Machiavellis City of God Civic Humanism and Augustinian Terror | 297 |
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Augustine and the Politics of Monasticism | 165 |
The Glory and Tragedy of Politics | 187 |
Augustine Influence and Perspectives | 215 |
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About the Editors and Contributors | 381 |
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