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The Augustinian Alternative : Religious Scepticism and the Search for a Liberal Politics /
This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism. This claim is set in a scholarly context that is profoundly hostile to constructive theological readings of liberal culture. As...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Collection: | Emerging scholars.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction
- 1. Political liberalism and its theological opponents
- 2. Political liberalism and the possibilities of Augustinian skepticism
- 3. The liberal state : an Augustinian defense
- 4. Montaigne and the notion of "the secular": an alternative to radical orthodoxy
- 5. Obeying, believing, and rebelling : Montaigne's theology as liberal Christian politics
- 6. Contemporary political landscapes : Augustine against neoliberalism
- Conclusion : Augustinian epistemology and the prospect of Christian liberalism.