Augustine and Politics

by Kim Paffenroth and John Doody

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739105566
• ISBN13: 9780739105566
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.4"