Evil and the Augustinian Tradition

Abstract

Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: reaching disagreement Part I. Preliminaries: Evil and the Augustinian Tradition: 1. Modernity and evil 2. The Augustinian tradition and its discontents Part II. Genealogy: Remembering the Augustinian Tradition: 3. Sin as perversion: Reinhold Niebuhr's Augustinian psychology 4. Evil as privation: Hannah Arendt's Augustinian ontology Part III. The Challenge of the Augustinian Tradition to Evil: 5. Demythologising evil Conclusion: realising incomprehension, discerning mystery Works cited Index.