Description:
Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and applies Augustinian thought to modern problems and misguided politics.
Brief description:
Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013) was one of the nation's most prominent and provocative thinkers on religion, political philosophy, and ethics. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School, Political Science, and the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. She was the author of numerous books, including Sovereignty: God, State, and Self.
Review Quotes:
"Professor Elshtain has written an engaged, impassioned and highly personal book chronicling her own engagements with the writings of St. Augustine, and her own attempts to apply Augustine's political, social and ethical thought so as to make sense of present-day crises and anxieties." --International Studies in Philosophy