RT Article
T1 Assessing the Augustinian Democrats
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 46
IS 3
SP 521
OP 547
A1 Tran, Jonathan
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/158388050X
AB In this essay I argue that Christian political participation as envisioned by those I term “Augustinian democrats”—a group of Protestant ethicists following a path cleared by Jeffrey Stout's 2004 Democracy and Tradition—is founded upon an elegantly rendered political ontology, but leaves incomplete a description of the practical task and place of the church. My contention is that this incompletely developed practical task is not accidental to the manner in which these Augustinians complete the speculative, ontological task. The completion of the speculative task combined with the incompletion of the practical task, I conclude, nevertheless results in a hybrid and especially interesting picture of personhood that points to an understanding of Protestantism as the attempt to recover human individuality within Christianity.
K1 Augustinian liberalism
K1 Charles Mathewes
K1 Eric Gregory
K1 Jeff Stout
K1 Church
DO 10.1111/jore.12230