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CHRISTIAN REALISM AND AUGUSTINIAN (?) LIBERALISM
Author(s) -
Kaufman Peter Iver
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2010.00460.x
Subject(s) - pluralism (philosophy) , politics , realism , ontology , soteriology , liberalism , ecclesiology , classical liberalism , antique , democracy , philosophy , epistemology , religious pluralism , sociology , religious studies , political science , law , history , archaeology
Augustine's ontology, ecclesiology, and soteriology have recently been mined to help Christian realists and liberals respond to the problems that pluralism and conflict create for democratic societies. The results challenge those secularists who object to the late antique prelate's “moralizing” as well as others who insist that “public reason”—not religious traditions—makes for more meaningful political conversations and for collaboration “across differences.” But the results also raise the question whether Augustine would have gone along with the realists and liberals he has inspired and outfitted.