Full Description
This volume addresses our global crisis by turning to Augustine, a master at integrating disciplines, philosophies, and human experiences in times of upheaval. It covers themes of selfhood, church and state, education, liberalism, realism, and 20th-century thinkers. The contributors enhance our understanding of Augustine's thought by heightening awareness of his relevance to diverse political, ethical, and sociological questions. Bringing together Augustine and Gallicanism, civil religion, and Martin Luther King, Jr., this volume expands the boundaries of Augustine scholarship through a consideration of subjects at the heart of contemporary political theory.
Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo, Rome and the Education of Mercy in Augustine's City of God.- 3. Michelle Kundmueller and Jeremy Castle, When a Law is No Law At All: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Use of Augustine and Aquinas in the Battle Against Segregation.- 4. Jonathan Price and Bede Mullens, O.P., Augustine's "Inner Self" and Identity Politics.- 5. Veronica Roberts Ogle, Cultus Hominum: Political Reflections on Augustine's Theological Anthropology.- 6. Greg Forster, In Rome but Not of It: Augustine between Eusebius and Donatus.- 7. Wei Hua, Augustine, Political Obedience and Chinese House Churches.- 8. Gladden Pappin, Augustine and Gallicanism.- 9. Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist, Spiritual Ends and Temporal Power: An Integralist Reading of The City of God.- 10. Paul Miller, Augustinian Liberalism.- 11. Kody Cooper, Existential Humility and the Critique of Civil Religion in Augustine's Political Theology.- 12. Peter Busch, Augustine's Call to Citizenship.- 13. Mary Keys,Elitism and Secularism, Old and New: Augustine on Humility, Pride, and Philosophy in The City of God VIII-X.- 14. Paul Weithman, Pride in a Time of Crisis.- 15. Michael Lamb, Augustine and Contemporary Political Theory: Toward an Augustinian Republicanism.- 16. Boleslaw Z. Kabala and Caleb Morefield, Speech and Silence: Republican Toleration in Augustine.- 17. Elżbieta Ciżewska-Martyńska, Augustine and Polish Republicans on the Fragility of Liberty: Questions for Today.- 18. Matthew Hallgarth, Augustine's Principled Realism.- 19. Douglas Kries, Augustine and the Flexibility of True Justice.- 20. Eric Gregory, Beyond Critique: Just War as Theological Political Theology.- 21. Nathan Pinkoski, "Love, but Be Careful What You Love": Arendt's Augustinian Fragments on Thinking.- 22. Daniel Strand, Augustine's Privation, Arendt's Banality.- 23. Conclusions.
