Augustine And Politics As Longing In The World

Author : John von Heyking
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780826263711

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Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World by John von Heyking Pdf

Saint 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 : John Doody,Kevin L. Hughes,Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739110098

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Augustine and Politics by John Doody,Kevin L. Hughes,Kim Paffenroth Pdf

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.

Author : Dino Bigongiari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258035685

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The Political Writings of St Augustine by Dino Bigongiari Pdf

Author : Michael Lamb
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691226330

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A Commonwealth of Hope by Michael Lamb Pdf

A 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 : R.W. Dyson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847140975

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St. Augustine of Hippo by R.W. Dyson Pdf

St 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 : Augustine
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603848848

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Augustine: Political Writings by Augustine Pdf

The best available introduction to the political thought of Augustine, if not to Christian political thought in general. Included are generous selections from City of God, as well as from many lesser-known writings of Augustine.

Author : Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine,Dino Bigongiari
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0895267047

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The Political Writings of St. Augustine by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine,Dino Bigongiari Pdf

Here 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 : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052144697X

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Augustine: Political Writings by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Collection containing thirty-five letters and sermons of St Augustine on politics, addressing essential themes in Augustine's thought.

Author : Boleslaw Z. Kabala,Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo,Nathan Pinkoski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030614850

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Augustine in a Time of Crisis by Boleslaw Z. Kabala,Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo,Nathan Pinkoski Pdf

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.

Author : Miles Hollingworth
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567480101

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The Pilgrim City by Miles Hollingworth Pdf

An outstanding new examination of St. Augustine's political philosophy and of its bearing upon the roots of Western civilization.

Author : Charles Mathewes
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802865083

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The Republic of Grace by Charles Mathewes Pdf

With The Republic of Grace Charles Mathewes aims to supply a primer of politics and the public square to help Christians in these dark times find hope in public life. He asks such questions as How should our Christian convictions lead us to see the world differently than those who do not share them? What are the categories that believers should use to act on the challenges of the world? Mathewes uses theological virtues best loved by Augustine faith, hope, and love to provide an analogical mirror for Christian citizenship in a post 9/11 American world. He examines not how religion has shaped our politics but rather how politics has shaped and mis-shaped our religious life and how we can begin to correct that shape. The Republic of Grace will help reignite and inform a fierce commitment to the common good of our society, caring concern for the least and most vulnerable, and the use of each person s gifts, power, and wealth as a force for good and justice in the world. In short, this book will enable readers to realize the sacramental possibilities of political life.

Author : Michael J. S. Bruno
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451482690

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Political Augustinianism by Michael J. S. Bruno Pdf

[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 : Peter Karl Koritansky
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826219442

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The Philosophy of Punishment and the History of Political Thought by Peter Karl Koritansky Pdf

"Conveniently divided into three sections, the book explores pagan and Christian pre-modern thought; early modern thought, culminating in chapters on Kant and classic Utilitarianism; and postmodern thought as exemplified in the theories of Nietzsche and Foucault. In all, the essays probe the work of Plato, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Cesere Beccaria, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Michel Foucault.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : History of Philosophy
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198728023

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Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by Peter Adamson Pdf

Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, and Augustine. But in keeping with the motto of the series, the story is told 'without any gaps,' providing an in-depth look at less familiar topics that remains suitable for the general reader. For instance, there are chapters on the fascinating but relatively obscure Cyrenaic philosophical school, on pagan philosophical figures like Porphyry and Iamblichus, and extensive coverage of the Greek and Latin Christian Fathers who are at best peripheral in most surveys of ancient philosophy. A major theme of the book is in fact the competition between pagan and Christian philosophy in this period, and the Jewish tradition also appears in the shape of Philo of Alexandria. Ancient science is also considered, with chapters on ancient medicine and the interaction between philosophy and astronomy. Considerable attention is paid also to the wider historical context, for instance by looking at the ascetic movement in Christianity and how it drew on ideas from Hellenic philosophy. From the counter-cultural witticisms of Diogenes the Cynic to the subtle skepticism of Sextus Empiricus, from the irreverent atheism of the Epicureans to the ambitious metaphysical speculation of Neoplatonism, from the ethical teachings of Marcus Aurelius to the political philosophy of Augustine, the book gathers together all aspects of later ancient thought in an accessible and entertaining way.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780851158198

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The Pilgrim City by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

The result is a full and wide-ranging narrative account of St. Augustine's thinking on the human condition, justice, the State, slavery, private property and war. This comprehensive sourcebook will be of value to students of St. Augustine at all levels."--Jacket.