Editors’ Introduction: Scope, Focus, and Purpose
1. Would it Have Killed Augustine to be More Like Socrates? James Wetzel
Part1: Augustine. Alternative Pluralisms
2. Augustine’s Flexibility in Encountering Pluralism Douglas Kries 3. The Philosophy and Politics of Universalism in the Time of Augustine Thomas Harmon 4. Augustine on Pagan and Christian Social Hierarchies Daniel E. Burns 5. E Pluribus Unum: Illiberal Pluralism at Cassiciacum Michael P. Foley
Part2: Augustinian Pluralism and Civic Engagement
6. Hopefully, Augustine Peter Iver Kaufman 7. Healing Hope: A Response to Peter Iver Kaufman Veronica Roberts Ogle 8. Augustine on Hope and Politics Michael Lamb 9. Augustine and Pluralism in a Globalized World Charles Mathewes 10. Augustine and the Christian Response to Nazism Paul Allen
Part3: Augustine and Black Religious Thought
11. Augustine in Dialogue with Frederick Douglass and Angela Davis on Human Freedom Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo 12. On Job and the Practical Problem of Suffering: Augustine and Martin Luther King, Jr. Compared Darren Yau 13. Africitas, or Fanon’s Confession: Manicheism and Pluralism in Augustine and Frantz Fanon Chase Padusniak 14. The Masters’ Metaphors and the Afterlife of Slavery: Re-reading Augustine’s ‘Form of the Slave’ Matthew Elia 15. Dominating Grief: An Ambiguously Augustinian Approach to Pregnancy Loss Patricia Grosse Brewer 16. Critique without Domination? Fraternal Correction as Augustinian Social Witness John Walker
Part5: Augustinian Feminism
17. Imitatio Christi as Humility: Augustine and Wollstonecraft toward a Pluralist Feminism Emily Dumler-Winckler 18. Too Late Have I Loved You: Misogyny, Sin, and Divinity in Confessions 6.15 Karmen MacKendrick 19. Obedience and Submission: Thinking with Augustine Vincent Lloyd
Part6: Augustine, Freedom, and Liberalism
20. Obscurity, Perplexity, and Plurality in Augustine’s City of God Mary M. Keys 21. Decolonization and the Two Cities: Quijano, Augustine, and Paul Owen Anderson 22. Envy, Imagination, and the ‘Eternal Flight of Equality: Tocqueville’s Augustinian Perspective on Democracy’s Path to Despotism and the Death of Pluralism Vince Bagnulo
Part7: Augustine and Pluralities of Time
23. African Temporalities: Race and the Augustinian Philosophy of Time Sean Hannan 24. In a Time of Reconciliation: Augustine and Jean-Francois Lyotard on Community Confession Boleslaw Z. Kabala and Kahlib Fischer. Index