{"product_id":"politics-and-the-order-of-eric-gregory-9780226307527","title":"Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship","description":"Augustine--for all of his influence on Western culture and politics--was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for liberalism and liberal imaginations for Augustinianism. \u003cbr\u003eGregory examines a broad range of Augustine's texts and their reception in different disciplines and identifies two classical themes which have analogues in secular political theory: love--and related notions of care, solidarity, and sympathy--and sin--as well as related notions of cruelty, evil, and narrow self-interest. From an Augustinian point of view, Gregory argues, love and sin constrain each other in ways that yield a distinctive vision of the limits and possibilities of politics. \u003cbr\u003eIn providing a constructive argument for Christian participation in liberal democratic societies, Gregory advances efforts to revive a political theology in which love's relation to justice is prominent. \u003ci\u003ePolitics and the Order of Love \u003c\/i\u003ewill provoke new conversations for those interested in Christian ethics, moral psychology, and the role of religion in a liberal society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Gregory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226307522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226307527\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.20d","brand":"Eric Gregory","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946339434751,"sku":"9780226307527","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bbbef744-07be-411a-8a8c-b3fe8c56231c.jpg?v=1681512596","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/politics-and-the-order-of-eric-gregory-9780226307527","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}