Assessing the Augustinian Democrats

Dados Bibliográficos

ID14760583
AutoresJonathan Tran (0000-0002-2866-2378, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume46
Fascículo3
Páginas521-547
Data de publicação2018-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jore.12230
OpenAlexW2894835994
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas44

In this essay I argue that Christian political participation as envisioned by those I term “Augustinian democrats”—a group of Protestant ethicists following a path cleared by Jeffrey Stout’s 2004 Democracy and Tradition —is founded upon an elegantly rendered political ontology, but leaves incomplete a description of the practical task and place of the church. My contention is that this incompletely developed practical task is not accidental to the manner in which these Augustinians complete the speculative, ontological task. The completion of the speculative task combined with the incompletion of the practical task, I conclude, nevertheless results in a hybrid and especially interesting picture of personhood that points to an understanding of Protestantism as the attempt to recover human individuality within Christianity

Christianity · Clearance · Democracy · Epistemology · Ontology · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · Task (project management · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Religious studies · Theology and Philosophy of Evil