Charity After Augustine - Solidarity, Conflict, and the Practices of Charity in the Latin West

Charity after Augustine explores why our attempts to build solidarity or social cohesion, at least in the West, have ended in disaster just as often as they have brought about a more just society. By focusing on concrete practices of love or charity, this book probes the double-sided nature of the Christian concepts and practices of charity.

List of contents

• I. Historiographical Intervention I


• 1: Charity and the Formation of Spiritual Judgment


• 2: Charity and the Limits of Unity


• 3: Charity and the Spirituality of Reciprocity


• II. Historiographical Intervention II


• 4: Benedict and the New Pastoral Arts


• 5: Gregory the Great and Charity's Professional Demands


• 6: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Fragmentation of Charity


• Epilogue: Solidarity and the Practice of Theology

About the author

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).

Summary

Charity after Augustine explores why our attempts to build solidarity or social cohesion, at least in the West, have ended in disaster just as often as they have brought about a more just society. By focusing on concrete practices of love or charity, this book probes the double-sided nature of the Christian concepts and practices of charity.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Teubner, Jonathan (Institute for Quantitative Soci Teubner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2025
• EAN: 9780198868620
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886862-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Spirituality, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Religious & theocratic ideologies