Augustine and Contemporary Social Issues -

Augustine and Contemporary Social Issues

Paul L. Allen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
236 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-20954-8 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book focuses on applying the thought of Saint Augustine to address a number of persistent, 21st century socio-political issues.
This book focuses on applying the thought of Saint Augustine to address a number of persistent 21st-century socio-political issues. Drawing together Augustinian ideas such as concupiscence, virtue, vice, habit, and sin through social and textual analysis, it provides fresh Augustinian perspectives on new—yet somehow familiar—quandaries. The volume addresses the themes of fallenness, politics, race, and desire. It includes contributions from theology, philosophy, and political science. Each chapter examines Augustine’s perspective for deepening our understanding of human nature and demonstrates the contemporary relevance of his thought.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10 1-032-20954-2 / 1032209542
ISBN-13 978-1-032-20954-8 / 9781032209548
Zustand Neuware
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