Augustine and Social Justice

Author:   Teresa Delgado ,  John Doody ,  Kim Paffenroth ,  Mary T. Clark
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498509176


Pages:   344
Publication Date:   14 January 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Teresa Delgado ,  John Doody ,  Kim Paffenroth ,  Mary T. Clark
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781498509176


ISBN 10:   1498509177
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   14 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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The temptation in much conventional theological talk about Augustine is to reduce him to a limited set of cliches concerning the several heresies he critiqued: Manichaeism, Donatism, and Pelagianism. This fine collection of essays of course does not avoid all theoretical issues and abstract questions, but it primarily shows the way in which this practicing church theologian had a continuing concern for the administration of the city of man. These scholars trace the ways in which his commitment, from classical categories, to order led him to think about justice as giving 'to each what belongs to him.' This book will be a significant contribution to current thinking about justice and the theological underpinnings that are required for faithfulness about the political economy. This discipline of first order thinking is indispensible in the face of crusading fads. -- Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary


The temptation in much conventional theological talk about Augustine is to reduce him to a limited set of cliches concerning the several heresies he critiqued: Manichaeism, Donatism, and Pelagianism. This fine collection of essays of course does not avoid all theoretical issues and abstract questions, but it primarily shows the way in which this practicing church theologian had a continuing concern for the administration of the city of man. These scholars trace the ways in which his commitment, from classical categories, to order led him to think about justice as giving 'to each what belongs to him.' This book will be a significant contribution to current thinking about justice and the theological underpinnings that are required for faithfulness about the political economy. This discipline of first order thinking is indispensable in the face of crusading fads. -- Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary Sixteen hundred years later, Saint Augustine is as popular as ever. A plethora of scholarship on the Bishop of Hippo's political theology and theological ethics is now available, even with different schools of Augustinian thinking circulating. Just when one might believe that Augustine's work and legacy have been exhaustively mined , along comes Augustine and Social Justice, a lode containing rich veins of original contributions by established and emerging scholars. With topics ranging from just war to restorative justice, and from consumerism to family ethics, this volume is a must-read for anyone interested in Augustine for today. -- Tobias Winright, Hubert Mader Chair of Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University How I would have loved a volume like Augustine and Social Justice to help me explore the implications of such reflections on justice. Despite the many works written on Augustine, including those that address Augustine's understanding of justice, very few helped me probe what Augustine's thought means for how we conceptualize and seek social justice. This volume does just that. The essays in this volume represent an impressive diversity of perspectives and cover a remarkable array of topics. * Reading Religion *


Author Information

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.

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