Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship - Rilegato

Gregory, Eric

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ISBN 10: 0226307514 ISBN 13: 9780226307510

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Augustine&;for all of his influence on Western culture and politics&;was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for liberalism and liberal imaginations for Augustinianism. 
Gregory examines a broad range of Augustine&;s texts and their reception in different disciplines and identifies two classical themes which have analogues in secular political theory: love&;and related notions of care, solidarity, and sympathy&;and sin&;as well as related notions of cruelty, evil, and narrow self-interest. From an Augustinian point of view, Gregory argues, love and sin constrain each other in ways that yield a distinctive vision of the limits and possibilities of politics.
In providing a constructive argument for Christian participation in liberal democratic societies, Gregory advances efforts to revive a political theology in which love&;s relation to justice is prominent.  Politics and the Order of Love will provoke new conversations for those interested in Christian ethics, moral psychology, and the role of religion in a liberal society.

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Eric Gregory is assistant professor of religion at Princeton University.

Eric Gregory is assistant professor of religion at Princeton University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226307514
• ISBN 13: 9780226307510
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 417
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