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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Eric GregoryPublish date:2010-12-15Pages:434
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226307527ISBN-10:226307522UPC:9780226307527Book Category:Religion, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophy, ReligiousSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCXVM6HJJA
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226307527ISBN-10:226307522UPC:9780226307527Book Category:Religion, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophy, ReligiousSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCXVM6HJJA
Eric Gregory is assistant professor of religion at Princeton University.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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