FORMATION, GRACE, AND PNEUMATOLOGY: Or, Where's the Spirit in Gregory's Augustine?

Eric Gregory's Politics and the Order of Love takes up an audacious project: enlisting Saint Augustine in order to “help imagine a better liberalism.” This article first provides a summary of Gregory's argument, focusing on his emphasis on love as a “motivation” for neighborly care, and he...

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1. VerfasserIn: Smith, James K. A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2011, Band: 39, Heft: 3, Seiten: 556-569
weitere Schlagwörter:B Augustine
B Holy Spirit
B Stanley Hauerwas
B John Milbank
B Pneumatology
B Jeffrey Stout
B Political Theology
B Feminist ethics
B democratic virtues
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Zusammenfassung:Eric Gregory's Politics and the Order of Love takes up an audacious project: enlisting Saint Augustine in order to “help imagine a better liberalism.” This article first provides a summary of Gregory's argument, focusing on his emphasis on love as a “motivation” for neighborly care, and hence democratic participation. This involves tracing the theme of motivation in the book, which is tied to his articulation of liberal perfectionism and an emphasis on civic virtue. In conclusion I raise the question of whether his project has ignored a key aspect of Augustine's account of love, namely, the role of the Holy Spirit, thereby demarcating the limits of Gregory's “rational reconstruction” of Augustine.
ISSN:1467-9795
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2011.00492.x