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Augustine of Hippo as Doctor Pacis: Studies on Peace in the Contemporary World Vol. 2

Debate is ongoing about Augustine’s political philosophy, and more particularly about his views on the relations between Church and State. This volume brings together a number of contributions that examine Augustine’s theoretical views on the subject. Augustine assumed his responsibilities as a theologian and Church leader: the truth of the faith and the unity of the Church could not be compromised. He did not hesitate to appeal to the civil authorities in the pursuit of this goal. In fact, he even ventured to deploy the civil authority, the emperor, against an ecclesiastical authority such as Pope Zosimus. This appeal to the secular arm of power was inspired on the one hand by Augustine’s concern for the preservation of order and peace, and on the other by his faith in the rights of truth. Yet this aspiration of Augustine’s was not absolute either. He rejected the idea that humans should be converted forcibly, against their will. He also condemned anything that compromised the physical integrity of human beings. In short, Augustine also recognised the value of the political system. This served to safeguard the good ends of earthly life, i.e. peace and justice. But Augustine believed this earthly peace and justice were reflections of the heavenly peace and justice, which are the foundation of earthly order and stability

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This Editorial (Volume-34; Issue-1) deals with teaching agriculture in schools with an extensionist approach

Peace through Order: Applying Augustine’s Concepts of Society, Security and Conflict in a Disordered World

The purpose of this chapter is to contextualize Augustine’s world and show how that world shaped his understanding of the nature of war, peace and security, before identifying possible applications for today’s geopolitical situations. The emphasis of this contribution is on connecting the reception of Augustine’s thought with the current global environment, in order to assess how future challenges might be addressed, and to determine how stability, peace, and prosperity might be achieved for the maximum amount of people in the twenty-first century

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Magnum Beneficium est Pax, sed Dei Veri Beneficium est (ciu., 3.9). Augustine’s Realism, Strategy, and Insight into Human Motives as a Prelude to Peace at all Levels of Human Existence

The objective of this study is to examine the vision Augustine developed on the relationship between religion and politics, and how he conceived the Christian religion as the foundation of political and social action. Firstly, he emphasizes in his reflections on officials in the res publica that their work was marked by tragedy. State institutions and political relationships are characterized by the volatility and temporality. The only ones that do not seem to realize this are the politicians themselves, because the nature of their work does not contribute to the development of the ability to (self-) introspection and growth in humilitas (humility). Secondly, in his De Civitate Dei Augustine strove to present human history as a mirror in which each leader can see the impact of his own inner motives. The struggle between Jerusalem and Babylon, greed and generosity, sincerity and opportunism is a battle in the interior for Augustine. But in Book XIX of De civitate Dei Augustine finally also relates physical balance, irrational and rational motives, striving for integrity, the role of family and government, in order to show that inner peace and peace in any social context are interwoven

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Inner Peace and Personal Identity. Reflections on the Unity of the Confessions

The division of the Confessions into an autobiographical part (book 1-10) and an exegetical part to Gen. 1-2: 3 (book 11-13) has raised questions with respect to their unity. While the view that the Confessions cannot be regarded as a unitary whole is now considered as a marginal position, there are various approaches to an integrating interpretation. This contribution elaborates on the proposal that the unity of the Confessions arises from their interpretation as a narrative identity construction of Augustine. The underlying meta-narrative in the Confessions is Augustine’s own doctrine of grace and original sin, which he has worked out in Simpl., 1, 2, shortly before. In the Confessions, Augustine illustrates the effect of divine grace and the transformation of man from homo sub lege and homo sub gratia to homo in pace exemplarily on the basis of his own life story. This understanding is supported by the further thesis that Augustine himself deals extensively with the question of “personal identity” in the Confessions and perceives identity in the context of neoplatonic conceptions as an inner-soul unity and harmony, which he conceives as unitas, quies/requies, and pax. The source of this unity is the eternal, unchanging one God. In Augustine, pax also stands for the condition of spiritual balance and represents the Christianized version of epicurean ataraxia and stoic tranquillitas animi. In addition, the contribution shows the systematic interlinkage of the Augustinian concepts of pax, unitas, caritas, requies, beatitudo, utifrui, res mutabiles-res immutabiles, creatio-creatura, temporalia-aeterna, and peregrinatio