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Author: Richard J. Dougherty
Publisher: Rochester Studies in Medieval
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1580469248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important collection reveals that Augustine's political thought drew on and diverged from the classical tradition, contributing to the study of questions at the center of all Western political thought.
Author: Michael Lamb
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2024-11-26
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0691226342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life When it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history’s great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square. Many have enlisted him to chasten political hopes, highlighting the realities of evil and encouraging citizens instead to cast their hopes on heaven. A Commonwealth of Hope challenges prevailing interpretations of Augustinian pessimism, offering a new vision of his political thought that can also help today’s citizens sustain hope in the face of despair. Amid rising inequality, injustice, and political division, many citizens wonder what to hope for in politics and whether it is possible to forge common hopes in a deeply polarized society. Michael Lamb takes up this challenge, offering the first in-depth analysis of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its profound implications for political life. He draws on a wide range of Augustine’s writings—including neglected sermons, letters, and treatises—and integrates insights from political theory, religious studies, theology, and philosophy. Lamb shows how diverse citizens, both religious and secular, can unite around common hopes for the commonwealth. Recovering this understudied virtue and situating Augustine within his political, rhetorical, and religious contexts, A Commonwealth of Hope reveals how Augustine’s virtue of hope can help us resist the politics of presumption and despair and confront the challenges of our time.
Author: Michael J. S. Bruno
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1451482698
DOWNLOAD EBOOK[Omslag] The thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. Political Augustinianism examines modern political readings of Augustine, providing an extensive account of the pivotal French, British, and American schools of interpretation. Bruno guides readers through these modern strands of interpretation, examines their historical, theological, and socio-political context, and discusses the hermeneutical underpinnings of the modern discussion of Augustine's social and political thought.
Author: Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 1996-09-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780895267047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere in one concise volume is St. Augustine's brilliant analysis of where faith and politics meet - casting a penetrating light on Roman civilization, the coming Middle Ages, ecclesiastical politics, and some of the most powerful ideas in the Western tradition, including Augustine's famous "just war theory" and his timeless ideas of how men should live in society.
Author: R.W. Dyson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-09-21
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1847140971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSt Augustine of Hippo was the earliest thinker to develop a distinctively Christian political and social philosophy. He does so mainly from the perspective of Platonism and Stoicism; but by introducing the biblical and Pauline conceptions of sin, grace and predestination he radically transforms the 'classical' understanding of the political. Humanity is not perfectible through participation in the life of a moral community; indeed, there are no moral communities on earth. Humankind is fallen; we are slaves of self-love and the destructive impulses generated by it. The State is no longer the matrix within which human beings can achieve ethical goods through co-operation with other rational and moral beings. Augustine's response to classical political assumptions and claims therefore transcends 'normal' radicalism. His project is not that of drawing attention to weaknesses and inadequacies in our political arrangements with a view to recommending their abolition or improvement. Nor does he adopt the classical practice of delineating an ideal State. To his mind, all States are imperfect: they are the mechanisms whereby an imperfect world is regulated. They can provide justice and peace of a kind, but even the best earthly versions of justice and peace are not true justice and peace. It is precisely the impossibility of true justice on earth that makes the State necessary. Robert Dyson's new book describes and analyses this 'transformation' in detail and shows Augustine's enormous influence upon the development of political thought down to the thirteenth century.
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-01-11
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780521446976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection containing thirty-five letters and sermons of St Augustine on politics, addressing essential themes in Augustine's thought.
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.
Author: David Vincent Meconi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1107025338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.
Author: John von Heyking
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0826263712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSaint Augustine's political thought has usually been interpreted by modern readers as suggesting that politics is based on sin. In Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World, John von Heyking shows that Augustine actually considered political life a substantive good that fulfills a human longing for a kind of wholeness. Rather than showing Augustine as supporting the Christian church's domination of politics, von Heyking argues that he held a subtler view of the relationship between religion and politics, one that preserves the independence of political life. And while many see his politics as based on a natural-law ethic or on one in which authority is conferred by direct revelation, von Heyking shows how Augustine held to an understanding of political ethics that emphasizes practical wisdom and judgment in a mode that resembles Aristotle rather than Machiavelli.
Author: Miles Hollingworth
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0567480100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn outstanding new examination of St. Augustine's political philosophy and of its bearing upon the roots of Western civilization.
