Augustine in a Time of Crisis: Politics and Religion Contested

Book Overview

1. Introduction

Part I: Freedom and Identity

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

Part II: Church and State

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

Part III: Nations, Residents, and Civil Religion

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

Part IV: The Republican Augustine?

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

Part V: Realism and Idealism in Augustine

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

Part VI: Receptions of Augustine in History

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030614875
• ISBN13: 9783030614874
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"