Augustine

Colleen E. Mitchell

Chapter 28 in Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought, 2024, pp 315-327 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter offers a guide to the major themes of the scholarly debates concerning the status of politics in Augustine’s thought. I begin with a summary of Augustine’s life and context before discussing several of the dominant interpretations of Augustine as an otherworldly, pessimistic, liberal, and secularist thinker, as well as responses to and criticisms of these interpretations. I close with some brief ideas about where more research on Augustine’s political thought might be fruitful.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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