Politics and the Order of Love

Robert P. Kennedy;

doi:10.5840/augstudies201142113

CHRISTIANITY AND THE POLITICAL ORDER - Eric Gregory: Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. 384. $45.00.)

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670509990787 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 71 (4) ◽

pp. 677-680

Author(s):

Marc D. Guerra

Keyword(s):

Democratic Citizenship ◽

Political Order ◽

The Political ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

University Of Chicago Press ◽

Order Of Love

Eric Gregory, . Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xv+417 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

The Journal of Religion ◽

10.1086/652130 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 90 (2) ◽

pp. 269-272

Author(s):

Richard B. Miller

Keyword(s):

Democratic Citizenship ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

University Of Chicago Press ◽

Order Of Love

4. The Blueprint of a New Heart: Max Scheler and the Order of Love

The Far Reaches ◽

10.1515/9780804792608-006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 80-100

Keyword(s):

Max Scheler ◽

Order Of Love

Politics & the Order of Love. By Eric Gregory

The Heythrop Journal ◽

10.1111/j.1468-2265.2010.00586_27.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

pp. 704-705

Author(s):

John Sullivan

Keyword(s):

Order Of Love

Book Review: Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship

Theological Studies ◽

10.1177/004056391007100429 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 71 (4) ◽

pp. 985-986

Author(s):

Stephen J. Pope

Keyword(s):

Democratic Citizenship ◽

Order Of Love

Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2008), pp. xv + 417. $45.00/£23.50 (hbk).

Scottish Journal of Theology ◽

10.1017/s0036930610000153 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 248-250 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R. A. Markus

Keyword(s):

Democratic Citizenship ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

University Of Chicago Press ◽

Order Of Love

Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love

Political Theology ◽

10.1558/poth.v11i1.161 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 161-164

Author(s):

Autumn Ridenour

Keyword(s):

Order Of Love

Baroque and the order of love structural parallels in Corneille'sLe Cid and Vondel'sJeptha

Neophilologus ◽

10.1007/bf01514820 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 118-131 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Albert S. G�rard

Keyword(s):

Order Of Love

Remigio dei Girolami—The Order of Love

The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207160.003.0012 ◽

1999 ◽

pp. 293-315

Author(s):

M. S. KEMPSHALL

Keyword(s):

Order Of Love

Between Presumption and Despair: Augustine's Hope for the Commonwealth

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055418000345 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 112 (4) ◽

pp. 1036-1049 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

MICHAEL LAMB

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Common Object ◽

Civic Friendship ◽

Positive Form ◽

Order Of Love ◽

Temporal Goods

Many political theorists dismiss Augustine as a pessimist about politics, assuming his “otherworldly” account of love precludes hope for this-worldly politics. This article challenges this pessimism by applying recent research on Augustine's “order of love” to reconstruct his implicit order of hope. Analyzing neglected sermons, letters, and treatises, I argue that Augustine encourages hope for temporal goods as long as that hope is rightly ordered and avoids the corresponding vices of presumption and despair. I then identify “civic peace” as a common object of hope that diverse citizens can share. By recovering hope as a virtue and reframing civic peace as a positive form of civic friendship, I argue that Augustine commends a hope for the commonwealth that avoids both presumption and despair. I conclude by analyzing how Augustine's vision of the commonwealth can inform contemporary political theory and practice.