Augustine And Politics

by Doody, John; Hughes, Kevin L.; Paffenroth, Kim; Breyfogle, Todd; Cary, Phillip; O.S.A, Robert Dodaro; Hamilton, Louis I.; Hanby, Michael; Kennedy, Robert P.; Martin O.S.A, Thomas F.; McCarraher, Eugene; Schindler, David C.; Smith, Thomas W.; Wright, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780739105566
• ISBN10: 0739105566
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-19
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Dedicatory Preface	ix
Thomas F. Martin
Introduction	xi
John Doody
Kevin L. Hughes
Kim Paffenroth
Part I. Human Nature and Virtue in Relation to Politics
United Inwardly by Love: Augustine's Social Ontology	3	(32)
Phillip Cary
Truthfulness as the Bond of Society	35	(18)
Robert P. Kennedy
Friendship as Personal, Social, and Theological Virtue in Augustine	53	(14)
Kim Paffenroth
Freedom Beyond Our Choosing: Augustine on the Will and Its Objects	67	(32)
David C. Schindler
Part II. Augustine's Theory and Critique of Politics
Between the Two Cities: Political Action in Augustine of Hippo	99	(18)
Robert Dodaro
Democracy and Its Demons	117	(28)
Michael Hanby
Local Politics: The Political Place of the Household in Augustine's City of God	145	(20)
Kevin L. Hughes
Augustine and the Politics of Monasticism	165	(22)
Thomas F. Martin
The Glory and Tragedy of Politics	187	(30)
Thomas W. Smith
Part III. Augustinian Influence and Perspectives
Toward a Contemporary Augustinian Understanding of Politics	217	(20)
Todd Breyfogle
Sexual Purity, ``The Faithful,'' and Religious Reform in Eleventh-Century Italy: Donatism Revisited	237	(24)
Louis I. Hamilton
The Enchanted City of Man: The State and the Market in Augustinian Perspective	261	(36)
Eugene McCarraher
Machiavelli's City of God: Civic Humanism and Augustinian Terror	297	(40)
Paul R. Wright
Bibliography	337	(18)
Index of Citations	355	(8)
Index of Subjects	363	(12)
Index of Modern Authors	375	(4)
Index of Biblical Citations	379	(2)
About the Editors and Contributors	381