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The Augustinian Imperative

Author : William E. Connolly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742521476
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis The Augustinian Imperative by : William E. Connolly

Download or read book The Augustinian Imperative written by William E. Connolly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entirely new interpretation of one of the most seminal and widely read figures in the history of political thought, The Augustinian Imperative is also 'an archaeological investigation into the intellectual foundation of liberal societies.' Drawing support from Nietzsche and Foucault, Connolly argues that the Augustinian Imperative contains unethical implications: its carriers too often convert living signs that threaten their ontological self-confidence into modes of otherness to be condemned, punished, or converted in order to restore that confidence. With a lucidity and rhetorical power that makes it readily accessible, The Augustinian Imperative examines Augustine's enactment of the Imperative, explores alternative ethico-political orientations, and subsequently reveals much about the politics of morality in the modern age.

Augustine and His Critics

Author : Robert Dodaro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134636695
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Augustine and His Critics written by Robert Dodaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the arguments of present-day critics of Augustine, and argues in favour of some of the much-neglected historical, philosophical and theological perspectives which lie behind Augustine's most unpopular convictions.

Augustine Through the Ages

Author : Allan Fitzgerald
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802838438
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Augustine Through the Ages by : Allan Fitzgerald

Download or read book Augustine Through the Ages written by Allan Fitzgerald and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume reference work provides the first encyclopedic treatment of the life, thought, and influence of Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430), one of the greatest figures in the history of the Christian church. The product of more than 140 leading scholars throughout the world, this comprehensive encyclopedia contains over 400 articles that cover every aspect of Augustine's life and writings and trace his profound influence on the church and the development of Western thought through the past two millennia. Major articles examine in detail all of Augustine's nearly 120 extant writings, from his brief tractates to his prodigious theological works. For many readers, this volume is the only source for commentary on the numerous works by Augustine not available in English. Other articles discuss: Augustine's influence on other theologians, from contemporaries like Jerome and Ambrose to prominent figures throughout church history, such as Gregory the Great, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, and Harnack; Augustine's life, the chaotic political events of his world, and the church's struggles with such heresies as Arianism, Donatism, Manicheism, and Pelagianism; Augustine's thoughts about philosophical problems (time, the ascent of the soul, the nature of truth), theological questions (guilt, original sin, free will, the Trinity), and cultural issues (church-state relations, Roman society).

The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations

Author : Nicholas Rengger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134488971
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations by : Nicholas Rengger

Download or read book The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations written by Nicholas Rengger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together some of the key works of Nicholas Rengger, focusing on the theme of the 'anti-Pelagian imagination' in political theory and international relations. Rengger frames the collection with a detailed introduction that sketches out this 'imagination', its origins and character, and puts the chapters that follow into context with the work of other theorists, including Bull, Connolly, Gray, Strauss, Elshtain and Kant. The volume concludes with an epilogue contrasting two different ways of reading this sensibility and offering reasons for supposing one is preferable to the other. Updating and expanding on ideas from work over the course of the last sixteen years, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations theory, political thought and political philosophy.

Political Augustinianism

Author : Michael J. S. Bruno
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451482698
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Political Augustinianism written by Michael J. S. Bruno and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [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.

G W F Hegel

Author : Fred R. Dallmayr
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780803936157
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis G W F Hegel by : Fred R. Dallmayr

Download or read book G W F Hegel written by Fred R. Dallmayr and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dallmayr argues that G W F Hegel is perhaps the leading philosopher of modernity and explores his philosophy as it pertains to the meaning of modernity and postmodernity: its celebration of individual freedom and the importance of a network of social relationships, public justice and civic virtue. This important text explains Hegel's work in the context of current theoretical and philosophical debates about modernity, illustrating his response to contemporary issues and recognizing him as a major figure in the history of political thought.

Reasoning With Who We Are

Author : Mark Redhead
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442227087
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Reasoning With Who We Are written by Mark Redhead and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public reasoning, a manner of democratic deliberation that can generate meaningful conceptions of justice, the collective good, and other unifying political values among individuals subscribing to varied and contrasting doctrines, has been a perennial concern among political philosophers from historical thinkers such as Immanuel Kant to contemporary theorists like John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas. In this ambitious study, Mark Redhead explores versions of public reasoning in the works of six of the most important voices in contemporary political theory; Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, Michel Foucault, and William E. Connolly. He identifies an important but as of yet unappreciated version of public reasoning--, one that provides creative and effective responses to questions at the forefront of liberal democratic political thought: human rights, secularity, and global governance.

Evil and the Augustinian Tradition

Author : Charles T. Mathewes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139430858
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Evil and the Augustinian Tradition written by Charles T. Mathewes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This explores the 'family biography' of the Augustinian tradition by looking at Augustine's work and its development in the writings of Hannah Arendt and Reinhold Niebuhr. Mathewes argues that the Augustinian tradition offers us a powerful, though commonly misconstrued, proposal for understanding and responding to evil's challenges. The book casts light on Augustine, Niebuhr and Arendt, as well as on the problem of evil, the nature of tradition, and the role of theological and ethical discourse in contemporary thought.

Augustine in a Time of Crisis

Author : Boleslaw Z. Kabala
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030614859
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Augustine in a Time of Crisis written by Boleslaw Z. Kabala and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Politics and the Order of Love

Author : Eric Gregory
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226307514
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Order of Love written by Eric Gregory and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine—for all of his influence on Western culture and politics—was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for liberalism and liberal imaginations for Augustinianism. Gregory examines a broad range of Augustine’s texts and their reception in different disciplines and identifies two classical themes which have analogues in secular political theory: love—and related notions of care, solidarity, and sympathy—and sin—as well as related notions of cruelty, evil, and narrow self-interest. From an Augustinian point of view, Gregory argues, love and sin constrain each other in ways that yield a distinctive vision of the limits and possibilities of politics. In providing a constructive argument for Christian participation in liberal democratic societies, Gregory advances efforts to revive a political theology in which love’s relation to justice is prominent. Politics and the Order of Love will provoke new conversations for those interested in Christian ethics, moral psychology, and the role of religion in a liberal society.

Confronting Evil in International Relations

Author : R. Jeffery
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230612539
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Confronting Evil in International Relations written by R. Jeffery and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers original essays on the subject of evil in international relations. It considers questions of moral agency associated with the perpetration of evil acts by individuals and groups in the international sphere, and the range of ethical responses the international community has available to it in the aftermath of large-scale evils.

Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World

Author : John von Heyking
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263712
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Book Synopsis Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World by : John von Heyking

Download or read book Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World written by John von Heyking and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine

Author : Ben Holland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030193330
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine written by Ben Holland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo. This analogy is an important theme in the history of political thought. Attempts have been made to understand the state by examining the soul (since Plato), the body (as in medieval theories of the body politic) and the person (surviving to this day in such concepts as international legal personality). This book aims to reinstate the Augustinian part of the story. It argues that Augustine develops three analogies between self and city, as a society ordered by love: self-love in the case of the Earthly City; divided but improving love in the Pilgrim City; and love of others and of God in the City of God. It supplies thereby an overview of Augustine’s intellectual ‘system’ as it touches upon theology, psychology and anthropology, as well as politics, and also provides a new interpretation of Augustine’s important definition of the republic.

Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism

Author : Kristen Deede Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113946115X
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism by : Kristen Deede Johnson

Download or read book Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism written by Kristen Deede Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we live together in the midst of our differences? This is one of the most pressing questions of our time. Tolerance has been the bedrock of political liberalism, while proponents of agonistic political thought and radical democracy have sought an answer that allows a deeper celebration of difference. Kristen Deede Johnson describes the move from tolerance to difference, and the accompanying move from epistemology to ontology, within political theory. Building on this 'ontological turn', in search of a theological answer to the question, she puts Augustine into conversation with recent political theorists and theologians. This theological option enables the Church to envision a way to engage with contemporary political society without losing its own embodied story and practices. It contributes to our broader political imagination by offering a picture of rich engagement between the many different particularities that constitute a pluralist society.

St. Augustine of Hippo

Author : R.W. Dyson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847140971
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book St. Augustine of Hippo written by R.W. Dyson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

What are They Saying about Augustine?

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Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1587683288
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book What are They Saying about Augustine? written by and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine's Thought

Author : Sarah Stewart-Kroeker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192527177
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine's Thought written by Sarah Stewart-Kroeker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine's dominant image for the human life is peregrinatio, which signifies at once a journey to the homeland (a pilgrimage) and the condition of exile from the homeland. For Augustine, all human beings are, in the earthly life, exiles from their true homeland: heaven. Some, but not all, become pilgrims seeking a way back to the heavenly homeland, a return mediated by the incarnate Christ. Becoming a pilgrim begins with attraction to beauty. The return journey therefore involves formation, both moral and aesthetic, in loving rightly. This image has occasioned a lot of angst in ethical thought in the last century. Augustine's vision of Christian life as a pilgrimage, his critics allege, casts a pall of groaning and longing over this life in favor of happiness in the next. Augustine's eschatological orientation robs the world of beauty and ethics of urgency. In Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine's Thought, Sarah Stewart-Kroeker responds to Augustine's critics by elaborating the Christological continuity between the earthly journey and the eschatological home. Through this cohesive account of pilgrimage as a journey toward the right ordering of the desire for beauty and love for God and neighbour, Stewart-Kroeker reveals the integrity of Augustine's vision of moral and aesthetic vision. From the human desire for beauty to the embodied practice of Christian sacraments, Stewart-Kroeker develops an account of the relationship between beauty and morality as the linchpin of an Augustinian moral theology.