St. Augustine and Political Philosophy
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2023) | Viewed by 234
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The journal Religions announces a call for contributions to a forthcoming Special Issue on the topic of “St. Augustine and Political Philosophy”. Scholarship over the past few decades has significantly addressed a wide variety of themes important to St. Augustine’s work, and focused a good bit of attention on the influence of his thought. This Special Issue will focus attention particularly on the crossroads between St. Augustine’s corpus and the issues important in the history of political philosophy.
Religions is an international and open access scholarly journal, publishing peer-reviewed studies on religious thought and practice. It publishes regular research papers, reviews, communications, and reports on research projects. Religions aims to serve the interests of a wide range of thoughtful readers and academic scholars of religion, as well as theologians, philosophers, social scientists, anthropologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and others interested in the multidisciplinary study of religions.
This Special Issue welcomes papers addressing any aspect of St. Augustine’s thought touching on themes in political philosophy and politics–The Roman republic or Roman empire, pagan virtue, Neoplatonism, civil theology, and the like. St. Augustine’s works are suffused with his own reactions to or uses of previous writings, and his own writings, of course, had an enormous impact on now almost two millennia of thinkers (the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine treats this in three volumes, but still cannot be fully comprehensive).
Of particular interest to this volume will be the interaction between St. Augustine’s political thought and the tradition of political thinking that engages with themes or issues important to St. Augustine and early Christian thinking. We welcome attempts to understand how St. Augustine’s arguments differ from or coalesce with different voices across time and cultures.
This Special Issue aims at a collection of ten or so contributions, and may be printed in book form if we reach that number.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: Augustine and neoplatonism; Augustine on the Roman Empire or Roman Republic; Christianity and classical culture; the critique of Roman civil theology; stoic and Christian ethics
We look forward to receiving your inquiries and contributions.
Prof. Dr. Richard Dougherty
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- St. Augustine
- politics
- political philosophy
- patristics
- Roman Empire
- Roman Republic
- pagan virtue
- platonism
- the will
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