The Pilgrim City: Social and Political Ideas in the Writings of St. Augustine of HippoSt Augustine on the human condition, justice, the State, slavery, private property and war: essential sourcebook for historians of late classical and medieval thought. The political and social ideas of St Augustine of Hippo are of central importance to the historian of late classical and medieval political thought: Augustine offers a penetrating critique of the moral and political claims of imperial Rome, and he is one of the founders of the Christian political thought of the middle ages. But the student's task is made difficult by the fact that Augustine did not write a single, systematic political treatise. His political remarks are always incidental to his theological and pastoral concerns; they occur in many different contexts; they have to be dissected out from a great variety of works. In this volume, Dr Dyson brings together an extensive selection of primary sources and provides a detailed commentary on them. The result is a full and wide-ranging narrative account of St Augustine's thinking on the human condition, justice, the State, slavery, private property and war. This comprehensive sourcebook will be of value to students of St Augustine at all levels.Dr R W DYSON lectures in the department of politics, University of Durham. |
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... Church 38 ( g ) Human History 41 CHAPTER TWO : THE STATE IN A SINFUL WORLD NARRATIVE 46 TEXTS : ( a ) The Sociable Nature of Man 62 ( b ) Natural Law 64 ( c ) The State as an Expression of Sin 66 ( d ) The State as Remedial Community 71 ...
... CHURCH AND STATE NARRATIVE TEXTS : 179 ( a ) The Spiritual and Temporal Spheres 191 ( b ) The Christian Ruler 193 ( c ) Religious Persecution ( i ) Augustine's Initial View 195 ( ii ) Augustine's Justifications 197 SUMMARY 210 SELECT ...
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Contents
SIN AND HUMAN HISTORY | 1 |
THE STATE IN A SINFUL WORLD | 46 |
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS | 104 |
CHURCH AND STATE | 179 |
SUMMARY | 210 |
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References to this book
Augustine: Political Writings Saint Augustine,Douglas Kries,Ernest L. Fortin No preview available - 1994 |