08 Augustine | Theology and Ethics https://www.theologyethics.com Resources and reflections on theology and ethics Thu, 03 May 2018 07:25:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 Joy in Time: Augustinian Reflections (Gregory, 2014) https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/04/16/joy-in-time-augustinian-reflections-gregory-2014/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/04/16/joy-in-time-augustinian-reflections-gregory-2014/#respond Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:01:04 +0000 https://www.theologyethics.com/?p=23789 [embeddoc url="https://faith.yale.edu/sites/default/files/gregory_joy.pdf" download="all" viewer="google"]

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/04/16/joy-in-time-augustinian-reflections-gregory-2014/feed/ 0 Augustine and the Limits of Politics (Biggar, Gregory, 2015) https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/04/16/augustine-and-the-limits-of-politics-biggar-gregory-2015/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/04/16/augustine-and-the-limits-of-politics-biggar-gregory-2015/#respond Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:04:59 +0000 https://www.theologyethics.com/?p=23782 Chair and Respondent — Charles Mathewes Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Nigel Biggar Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christ Church, Oxford; Director for the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life “Jean Bethke Elshtain — A Critical Appreciation of Her Work”
Eric Gregory Professor of Religion, Princeton University “Taking Love Seriously: Elshtain’s Augustinian Voice and Modern Politics”

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/04/16/augustine-and-the-limits-of-politics-biggar-gregory-2015/feed/ 0 Strange Fruit: Augustine, Liberalism, and the Good Samaritan (Gregory, 2017) https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/04/16/strange-fruit-augustine-liberalism-and-the-good-samaritan-gregory-2017/ Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:42:18 +0000 https://www.theologyethics.com/?p=23775 "Augustinians, at their best, remain critics of empires and nationalisms (especially ones that lay claim to democratic virtue). But I have suggested a political Augustinianism that wants to be more than a counsel against idolatry risks saying something about the mysterious and hidden ways of God, even in politcal action. Some still need to be reminded of Augustinian limits and the enigmas of temporal life. But in a world that has largely abandoned any hopes for redemption (in this life or the next), articulating the possibility of redemptive agency in the world strikes me as urgent. Such a political theology might offer more than critique, even for those who long for another city after time".

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