This book focuses on St. Augustine as a worthwhile resource for thinking through the challenges and prospects of pluralism. The contributors speak to several dimensions of this organizing concept, understanding of which is advanced by engagement with Augustine. The volume brings together scholars from different disciplines, faith traditions, and political commitments, all of whom have deemed it worthwhile to return to Augustine to learn about a signature theme of common life in the twenty-first century. The chapters address a variety of topics including civic engagement, feminism, Black religious thought, domination, liberalism, and time. In an age of pluralism, the hope is to access the insights of the thinker who struggled with a plurality of desires, motivations, and political-theological imaginations, and to benefit from his thoughts. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of theology, philosophy, and political science.
This book focuses on St. Augustine as a worthwhile resource for thinking through the challenges and prospects of pluralism. The contributors speak to several dimensions of this organizing concept, understanding of which is advanced by engagement with Augustine.
Editors Introduction: Scope, Focus, and Purpose
1. Would it Have Killed
Augustine to be More Like Socrates? James Wetzel Part 1: Augustine.
Alternative Pluralisms
2. Augustines Flexibility in Encountering Pluralism
Douglas Kries
3. The Philosophy and Politics of Universalism in the Time of
Augustine Thomas Harmon
4. Augustine on Pagan and Christian Social
Hierarchies Daniel E. Burns
5. E Pluribus Unum: Illiberal Pluralism at
Cassiciacum Michael P. Foley Part 2: Augustinian Pluralism and Civic
Engagement
6. Hopefully, Augustine Peter Iver Kaufman
7. Healing Hope: A
Response to Peter Iver Kaufman Veronica Roberts Ogle
8. Augustine on Hope and
Politics Michael Lamb
9. Augustine and Pluralism in a Globalized World
Charles Mathewes
10. Augustine and the Christian Response to Nazism Paul
Allen Part 3: Augustine and Black Religious Thought
11. Augustine in Dialogue
with Frederick Douglass and Angela Davis on Human Freedom Ashleen
Menchaca-Bagnulo
12. On Job and the Practical Problem of Suffering: Augustine
and Martin Luther King, Jr. Compared Darren Yau
13. Africitas, or Fanons
Confession: Manicheism and Pluralism in Augustine and Frantz Fanon Chase
Padusniak Part 4: Augustine, Identity, and Paradoxes of Domination
14. The
Masters Metaphors and the Afterlife of Slavery: Re-reading Augustines Form
of the Slave Matthew Elia
15. Dominating Grief: An Ambiguously Augustinian
Approach to Pregnancy Loss Patricia Grosse Brewer
16. Critique without
Domination? Fraternal Correction as Augustinian Social Witness John Walker
Part 5: Augustinian Feminism
17. Imitatio Christi as Humility: Augustine and
Wollstonecraft toward a Pluralist Feminism Emily Dumler-Winckler
18. Too Late
Have I Loved You: Misogyny, Sin, and Divinity in Confessions 6.15 Karmen
MacKendrick
19. Obedience and Submission: Thinking with Augustine Vincent
Lloyd Part 6: Augustine, Freedom, and Liberalism
20. Obscurity, Perplexity,
and Plurality in Augustines City of God Mary M. Keys
21. Decolonization and
the Two Cities: Quijano, Augustine, and Paul Owen Anderson
22. Envy,
Imagination, and the Eternal Flight of Equality: Tocquevilles Augustinian
Perspective on Democracys Path to Despotism and the Death of Pluralism Vince
Bagnulo Part 7: Augustine and Pluralities of Time
23. African Temporalities:
Race and the Augustinian Philosophy of Time Sean Hannan
24. In a Time of
Reconciliation: Augustine and Jean-Francois Lyotard on Community Confession
Boleslaw Z. Kabala and Kahlib Fischer. Index
Boleslaw Z. Kabala is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tarleton State University, USA, and Research Associate at the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University.
Thomas P. Harmon is Professor and Scanlan Foundation Chair in Theology at the University of St. Thomas, USA.
Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University, USA.
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