Augustine and the Limits of Politics

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By Jean Bethke Elshtain
(University of Notre Dame Press, 1998)

Why Augustine? Why now? Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and presents a man who created a complex moral map that offers space for loyalty, love, and care, as well as a chastened form of civic virtue.

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