Augustine and the Limits of Politics [Book Review]
Dialogue 39 (1):175-176 (
2000)
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Abstract
Jean Bethke Elshtain's 1995 Frank Covey, Jr. Lectures on Political Analysis at Loyola University in Chicago are printed here in book form. Admitting that her Latin is inadequate to access the original texts, Elshtain does not purport that her lectures are a work of Augustinian scholarship. Rather, as the title of the first chapter—"Why Augustine, Why Now?"—suggests, Elshtain wants to assess the significance of Augustine for contemporary society.