Augustine and Contemporary Social Issues

Paul L. Allen is Academic Dean of Corpis Christi College and Professor of Theology at St. Mark's College in Vancouver, Canada.

Introduction

Paul Allen

I Human Nature and Contemporary Fallenness

1. On the Alleged Empirical Verifiability of the Doctrine of Original Sin

Jesse Couenhoven

2. Saint Augustine and the Modern-Day Demon

David Meconi, S.J.

3. Explorations of Emptiness: Spiritual Famine and Fullness in Augustine’s Confessions and Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast

Mark Scott

II Augustine and Politics

4. Truth, Lies, and Politics: Augustine and Havel on the Problem of Civic Integrity and "Living in Truth"

Mary Keys

5. Ye Shall Till Thy Field: The Goodness and Fall of Work in Augustine and Marx

Michael Giles

III Augustine and Race

6. Redeeming Hybridity: Augustine’s Christological Correction of a Postcolonial Category

David Wilhite

7. Immigration, Migration, Personhood, and the Body of Christ

Matthew Drever

8. Black Lives Matter and the African Bishop

Burt Fulmer

IV Augustine and Desire

9. Mercy for Lucretia: Augustine’s Christian Retelling of a pagan Roman Myth

Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo

10. The Love of Habits and the Habit of Love: Augustine and Addiction

Paul L. Allen

11. "The Colossal Force of Libido": How Augustine Thought and Preached on Sexual Desire

Timo Nisula