Augustine on Justice: A Reconsideration of City of God, Book 19
I argue that Augustine's message in City of God, Book 19, has been consistently misinterpreted and hence a vital part of his argument in City of God has been misunderstood. The received reading of Book 19, as found in the work of Mary Clark, Rowan Williams, John Milbank, Oliver O'Donovan a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Political theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 5, Pages: 382-396 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430, De civitate dei 19
/ Paganism
/ Politics
/ Justice
/ Social justice
/ Righteousness
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| IxTheo Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBE Anthropology NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B Justice B Political Theology B City of God (De civitate Dei) B pagan virtue |
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| Summary: | I argue that Augustine's message in City of God, Book 19, has been consistently misinterpreted and hence a vital part of his argument in City of God has been misunderstood. The received reading of Book 19, as found in the work of Mary Clark, Rowan Williams, John Milbank, Oliver O'Donovan and Robert Dodaro, is that in Book 19 Augustine rejected the possibility of finding social and political justice among pagans. I argue that Augustine reached no such conclusion in Book 19. On the contrary, I find that the only justice that Augustine denied to pagans in Book 19 was justice as righteousness, that is, the justice of worshipping and serving the true God. He found that pagans claimed justice as righteousness for themselves and on this basis claimed that Rome had been a republic. Augustine denied that pagans could ever possess justice as righteousness, and hence denied that pagan Rome had ever been a republic. |
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| Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 5-6 August-September 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1438781 |