Charity after Augustine: Solidarity, Conflict, and the Practices of Charity in the Latin West

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Jonathan Teubner (Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Research Faculty, Human Flourishing Program)

Charity after Augustine

Solidarity, Conflict, and the Practices of Charity in the Latin West

Jonathan Teubner (Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Research Faculty, Human Flourishing Program)

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English

Oxford University Press
22 May 2025

Christianity; Christian theology; Christian spirituality & religious experience; Religious & theocratic ideologies

Charity after Augustine explores why the Augustinian tradition's attempts to build solidarity in the societies of the Latin West have ended in disaster just as often as they have brought about justice. Focusing on the concrete practices of love and charity DL almsgiving, works of mercy, good works DL Teubner demonstrates how religious leaders attempted simultaneously to bind and hold communities together while also, in fits and starts, to expand and include others in their communities.

The first part probes how Augustine's thought is put into practice, informing a tradition of political action inspired by concepts of love and enacted through practices of charity. In a second, more expansive part, Charity after Augustine turns to the ways in which the Benedictine tradition, as recieved by Gregory the Great and Bernard of Clairvaux, transforms this vision and puts it into practice in contexts radically different from those of Augustine's age. At the heart of this book is an attempt to find a non-idealized vision of love that can inform thick relations within a community that are not diluted but are rather strengthened by the incorporation of outsiders.

By: Jonathan Teubner (Institute for Quantitative Social Science Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science Harvard University Research Faculty Human Flourishing Program)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780198868620
ISBN 10: 0198868626
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 22 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

JONATHAN D. TEUBNER is a member of the Research Faculty at the Human Flourishing Program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. Previously, Teubner held an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship at the Institut für Antikes Christentum at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was the Associate Director of the Initiative on Religion, Politics and Conflict at the Univeristy of Virginia. He is the author of Prayer After Augustine (2018).