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Transcending subjecTs Challenges in Contemporary Theology series editors: gareth jones and Lewis ayres Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK and University of Durham, UK challenges in contemporary Theology is a series aimed at producing clear orientations in, and research on, areas of ‘challenge’ in contemporary theology. These carefully co‐ordinated books engage traditional theological concerns with mainstreams in modern thought and culture that challenge those concerns. The ‘challenges’ implied are to be understood in two senses: those presented by society to contemporary theology, and those posed by theology to society. 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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication data applied for Hardback 9781119163084 a catalogue record for this book is available from the british Library. cover image: Fra angelico, The conversion of saint augustine, oil on canvas. © d. sohier / cherbourg-Octeville, Musée Thomas Henry set in 11.5/13pt bembo by sPi global, Pondicherry, india 1 2016 To Cynthia with whom I journey joyfully “This book is a worthy effort to rethink a robust sense of divine transcendence, which helpfully highlights important philosophical, theological, ethical, and political dimensions relevant to contempo- rary discussion. i particularly liked how it takes seriously a sense of divine transcendence that is not reducible to the forms of immanent transcendence currently more common, and that is also fully intimate with the immanent world, in a way more dualistic conceptions often failed to be in the past. The book importantly challenges a negative view of augustine and a positive predilection for a non-metaphysical version of Hegel among some contemporary thinkers. it is very well versed in the works of Hegel and augustine, and informed by the relevant scholarship. it is a readable and engaging book which insight- fully and deftly unfolds a significant dialogue between augustine and Hegel, as well as between the author and their significant contempo- rary interpreters.” William Desmond, Professor of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit, David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University Contents Acknowledgements ix Citations and Abbreviations x Introduction 1 Part I Hegel—Self‐Transcending Immanence 15 1 Hegel in Contemporary Political Philosophy 17 Introduction 17 Evolutionary Social Practices: Autonomy through Sociality 19 Revolutionary Radical Act: Autonomy against Sociality 27 Conclusion 38 2 Consciousness and Freedom: Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit 43 Introduction 43 Nothing Is Infinite: Science of Logic 45 Infinite Self‐Consciousness: Phenomenology of Spirit 62 Beyond Nothing and the Unfathomable 89 Conclusion 93 3 Society and Freedom: Philosophy of Right 103 Introduction 103 The Subject and Substance of Politics 104 The Institutions of Ethical Life: Family, Civil Society, and State 115 The Limits of Self‐Transcending Immanence 118 Conclusion 124 viii Contents Part II Augustine—Self‐Immanenting Transcendence 129 4 Augustine in Contemporary Political Theology 131 Introduction 131 Ontological Peace: Transcendence against Liberalism 133 Ordered Love: Transcendence for Liberalism 144 Conclusion 151 5 Conversion and Freedom: Confessions 155 Introduction 155 Conversion of the Will: Conflict and Intervention 160 Conversion of the Will: Community and Intervention 169 Conversion of Creation: Christ as Intervention 178 Conclusion 185 6 Society and Freedom: City of God 192 Introduction 192 Earthly City and the Lust for Domination 198 Justice and Res Publica 205 Justice, Love, and Sacrifice 208 Love and the World 215 Conclusion 222 Conclusion 230 Index 239
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