Augustine and Politics
Author: John Doody
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780739110096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.