Augustine and Social Justice

Teresa Delgado is associate professor of religious studies and director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Iona College. John Doody is professor of philosophy and Robert M. Birmingham chair in humanities at Villanova University. He is also director of the Villanova Center for Liberal Education. Kim Paffenroth is professor of religious studies at Iona College and the interim director of the Iona College Honors Program.

Introduction
I. Introductory and General Discussions
1. Augustine on Justice Mary T. Clark
2. The Pursuit of Social Justice: Some Augustinian Sources of Caution Mark Doorley
3. The Philosophical Tenets and Content of Augustine’s Social Doctrine Sergey Trostyanskiy

II. Economic Justice
4. Altruism or Holy Economy: Ambrose and Augustine’s Care for the Poor Todd French
5. The Consumer's Restless Heart J. Burton Fulmer
6. Eudaimonism and Dispossession: Augustine on Almsgiving Jennifer Herdt
7. Augustine and Political Economy Rodolfo Hernandez-Diaz

III. Politics, Power, and War
8. Augustine and Slavery: Freedom for the Free Aaron Conley
9. Interrupting Augustine’s Inheritance: Breaking the Dominance of Power and Order in Augustine’s Development of an Ethic of War through Latino/a Theology María Teresa Dávila
10. Augustinian Realism and the Morality of War: An Exchange Edmund N. Santurri and William Werpehowski
11. The Anarchistic Dimensions of Augustinian Realism George Schmidt

IV. Justice, Love, and Community
12. Common Ruins of Love: Augustine and the Politics of Mourning John Kiess
13. Augustine and Social Justice in John Calvin’s Biblical Commentaries Matthew J. Pereira
14. Friendship and Moral Formation: Implications for Restorative Justice Sarah Stewart-Kroeker
15. Augustine, Families, and Social Justice Darlene Weaver