Augustine and Modernity

Augustine and Modernity

Author: Michael Hanby

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0415284686

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This text debates the Augustinian origins of modern subjectivity & the Christian genesis of Western nihilism.


Augustine and Modernity

Augustine and Modernity

Author: Michael Hanby

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780415284691

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This text debates the Augustinian origins of modern subjectivity & the Christian genesis of Western nihilism.


The Augustinian Imperative

The Augustinian Imperative

Author: William E. Connolly

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780742521476

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An entirely new interpretation of one of the most seminal and widely read figures in the history of political thought, The Augustinian Imperative is also 'an archaeological investigation into the intellectual foundation of liberal societies.' Drawing support from Nietzsche and Foucault, Connolly argues that the Augustinian Imperative contains unethical implications: its carriers too often convert living signs that threaten their ontological self-confidence into modes of otherness to be condemned, punished, or converted in order to restore that confidence. With a lucidity and rhetorical power that makes it readily accessible, The Augustinian Imperative examines Augustine's enactment of the Imperative, explores alternative ethico-political orientations, and subsequently reveals much about the politics of morality in the modern age.


On the Road with Saint Augustine

On the Road with Saint Augustine

Author: James K. A. Smith

Publisher: Brazos Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 149341996X

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★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.


Augustine and Postmodernism

Augustine and Postmodernism

Author: John D. Caputo

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2005-03-10

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0253217318

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Scanlon, and Mark Vessey.Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion--Merold Westphal, general editor


Augustine and Modern Law

Augustine and Modern Law

Author: James Bernard Murphy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 135157499X

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St. Augustine and Roman law are the two bridges from Athens and Jerusalem to the world of modern law. Augustine's almost eerily modern political realism was based upon his deep appreciation of human evil, arising from his insights into the human personality, the product of his reflections on his own life and the history of his times. These insights have traveled well through the ages and are mirrored in the pages of Aquinas, Luther and Calvin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hannah Arendt. The articles in this volume describe the life and world of Augustine and the ways in which he conceived both justice and law. They also discuss the little recognized Augustinian contributions to the field of modern hermeneutics - the discipline which informs the art of legal interpretation. Finally, they include Augustine's valuable discussion of church/state relations, the law of just wars, and proper role and limits of coercion, and the procreative dimensions of marriage. The volume also includes an extremely useful, definitive bibliography of Augustine and the law, and will leave readers with an increased appreciation of the contributions which Augustine has made to the history of jurisprudence. No one can read Augustine and these articles on his view of the law without taking away a new view of the law itself.


On Regular Life, Freedom, Modernity, and Augustinian Communitarianism

On Regular Life, Freedom, Modernity, and Augustinian Communitarianism

Author: Guillermo M. Jodra

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-11-17

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1350303542

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This second of a two-volume work provides a new understanding of Western subjectivity as theorized in the Augustinian Rule. A theopolitical synthesis of Antiquity, the Rule is a humble, yet extremely influential example of subjectivity production. In these volumes, Jodra argues that the Classical and Late-Ancient communitarian practices along the Mediterranean provide historical proof of a worldview in which the self and the other are not disjunctive components, but mutually inclusive forces. The Augustinian Rule is a culmination of this process and also the beginning of something new: the paradigm of the monastic self as protagonist of the new, medieval worldview. In the previous volume, Jodra gave us the Mediterranean backstory to Augustine's Rule. In this volume two, he develops his solution to socialism, through a kind of Augustinian communitarianism for today, in full. These volumes therefore restore the unity of the Hellenistic and Judaic world as found by the first Christians, proving that the self and the other are two essential pieces in the construction of our world.


Augustine and Psychology

Augustine and Psychology

Author: Sandra Dixon

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012-12-21

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0739179195

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The essays here show the interface and relevance of psychology to theology (and vice versa), and they do so in a way that will be useful to upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level courses in religious studies. The collection is also useful for presenting classic essays as well as new essays appearing here for the first time.