Augustine's Leaders (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781625642028)

In Augustine's Leaders, Peter Iver Kaufman works from the premise that appropriations of Augustine endorsing contemporary liberal efforts to mix piety and politics are mistaken--that Augustine was skeptical about the prospects for involving Christianity in meaningful political change. His skepticism raises several questions for historians. What roles did one of the most influential Christian theologians set for religious and political leaders? What expectations did he have for emperors, statesmen, bishops, and pastors? What obstacles did he presume they would face? And what pastoral, polemical, and political challenges shaped Augustine's expectations--and frustrations? Augustine's Leaders answers those questions and underscores the leadership its subject provided as he continued to commend humility and compassion in religious and political cultures that seemed to him to reward, above all, celebrity and self-interest.

Author: Peter Iver Kaufman
ISBN-10: 1625642024
ISBN-13: 9781625642028
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2017
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d