Augustine in a Time of Crisis: Politics and Religion Contested
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Invited Introduction: The Importance of St. Augustine in His Day, and in Ours -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 1: Editors' Introduction -- Freedom and Identity -- Church and State -- Nations, Residents, and Civil Religion -- Augustin...
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Springer International Publishing AG
2021
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In: | Year: 2021 |
Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
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Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430
/ Political theology
/ Political philosophy
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Augustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430
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Summary: | Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Invited Introduction: The Importance of St. Augustine in His Day, and in Ours -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 1: Editors' Introduction -- Freedom and Identity -- Church and State -- Nations, Residents, and Civil Religion -- Augustine and Republicanism -- The Realist Augustine -- Revisiting Hannah Arendt on Augustine -- Part I: Freedom and Identity -- Chapter 2: Rome and the Education of Mercy in Augustine's City of God -- Introduction -- Regulus -- Romulus -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: When a Law Is No Law at All: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Use of Augustine and Aquinas in the Battle Against Segregation -- Augustine on Laws and Robbers -- Aquinas on the Nature of Law -- The Letter from a Birmingham Jail, a Case in Point -- King's Natural Law Theory: Just and Unjust Laws -- Natural Law and Civil Disobedience -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Augustine's "Inner Self" and Identity Politics -- Introduction -- Two Politics -- Augustine: Two Loves, Two Cities, Two Interiors -- Inner Privacy and Political Legitimacy -- Rousseau: The Politics of Sacred Interiority -- Inner Sanctum -- Self-loves and the Soul-State Duality -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Latreia and Its Parodies: Political Reflections on Augustine's Theological Anthropology -- Bibliography -- Part II: Church and State -- Chapter 6: In Rome But Not of It: Augustine Between Eusebius and Donatus -- One Crisis, Two Faces -- The Political Face of the Crisis: Rome Copes with Decreasing Power and the Challenge of Pluralism -- The Theological Face of the Crisis: The Church Copes with Increasing Power and the Challenge of Pluralism -- The Interdependence of Eusebianism and Donatism -- Eusebianism: God Uses Rome to Conquer the Nations -- Donatism: God Calls the Church Out of the Nations. |
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ISBN: | 3030614859 |