Scholars have begun to explore the broader lines of Augustine's political thought in his letters and sermons, and thus have been able to place his cla The study of Augustine's political teachings has suffered from a history of misreadings, both ancient and modern. Scholars have begun to explore the broader lines of Augustine's political thought in his letters and sermons, and thus have been able to place his classic text, The City of God, in its proper context.
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The essays in this volume take stock of these recent 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 Renaissance, and today.
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Augustine has long been a special study of mine; the 'Confessions' was one of the earliest books I read in my college career, and 'City of God' interested me in both political science and religious studies I eventually took degrees in both. The overall arrangement of the book is done in three sections, broadly drawn. Essays by Phillip Cary, Robert P. Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, and David C.
Schindler look at issues of social ontology, language, friendship relationships, and aspects of freedom, determinism beauty and goodness. The second section of essays examines 'Augustine's Theory and Critique of Politics. These essays address issues large and small, from civic engagement to household organisation, monastic-style communal arrangement and the transformative possibility of a political action driven by grace toward justice and peace.
The third set of essays develops 'Augustinian Influence and Perspectives'. This set of essays looks at later developments out of Augustine's political thought up to the present day.
From influences on church development centuries later to Machiavellian appropriations and inspiration to modern contemporary politic frameworks which often misread Augustine by attempting to force his writings and ideas into casts unfamiliar to Augustine. One highlight for me was the essay by Paffenroth on Augustine's ideas of friendship: Friendship would seem to be something easy, but this is a deceptive view. Paffenroth draws on the character of Ivan in the Brothers Karamazov who writes that 'the people near one are the most difficult to love, for they inevitably change, disappoint, and even disgust.
Augustine's works of 'Confessions' and 'City of God' are the primary but far from the only resources used here - Augustine's output was such that one is reminded of the statement by Isidore of Seville regarding Augustinian scholarship, even in his own day, that there was far too much for any one to master in every aspect.
Perhaps it is with this in mind that the editors write in the introduction that 'these contributions together provide us not with a view of Augustine's politics, but, as the title of the series implies, a conversation with Augustine about politics. There is significant difference between the intention of a work such as 'City of God' and Plato's 'Republic', for instance.