Politics and the order of love an Augustinian ethic of democratic citizenship. - Gregory, Eric (Chicago University of Chicago press, 2008)
Introduction: Augustine and modern liberalism -- Beyond public reason: love, sin, and Augustinian civic virtue -- From vice to virtue: the development of Augustinian liberalism -- A liberal ethic of care: feminist political theory and Christian social ethics -- Love as political vice: Hannah Arendt's Augustine -- Love as political virtue: "stoics" and the problem of passion -- Love as political virtue: "Platonists" and the problem of God -- Conclusion: remembering Augustine: the exhausted politics of pessimism, skepticism, and nostalgia.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-405) and index.
Keywords: Augustine, -- of Hippo, Saint, -- 354-430.; Liberalism; Love -- Religious aspects&delete& -- Christianity; Political science -- Philosophy; 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS:241 -- Latijnse patrologie-:-Moraaltheologie. Theologische ethiek--AUGUSTINUS