Charity after Augustine

NOTE EDITORE

Charity after Augustine explores why the Augustinian tradition's attempts to build solidarity in the societies of the Latin West have ended in disaster just as often as they have brought about justice. Focusing on the concrete practices of love and charity — almsgiving, works of mercy, good works — Teubner demonstrates how religious leaders attempted simultaneously to bind and hold communities together while also, in fits and starts, to expand and include others in their communities. The first part probes how Augustine's thought is put into practice, informing a tradition of political action inspired by concepts of love and enacted through practices of charity. In a second, more expansive part, Charity after Augustine turns to the ways in which the Benedictine tradition, as recieved by Gregory the Great and Bernard of Clairvaux, transforms this vision and puts it into practice in contexts radically different from those of Augustine's age. At the heart of this book is an attempt to find a non-idealized vision of love that can inform thick relations within a community that are not diluted but are rather strengthened by the incorporation of outsiders.

SOMMARIO

1 - Charity and the Formation of Spiritual Judgment2 - Charity and the Limits of Unity3 - Charity and the Spirituality of Reciprocity4 - Benedict and the New Pastoral Arts5 - Gregory the Great and Charity's Professional Demands6 - Bernard of Clairvaux and the Fragmentation of Charity

AUTORE

JONATHAN D. TEUBNER is a member of the Research Faculty at the Human Flourishing Program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. Previously, Teubner held an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship at the Institut für Antikes Christentum at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was the Associate Director of the Initiative on Religion, Politics and Conflict at the Univeristy of Virginia. He is the author of Prayer After Augustine (2018).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198868620
• Dimensioni: 241 x 20.0 x 165 mm Ø 540 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 256