@article{ART001904349},
author={Moon, Si Young},
title={Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?},
journal={The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics},
issn={1229-8387},
year={2014},
number={29},
pages={07-37}
TY - JOUR
AU - Moon, Si Young
TI - Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?
JO - The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
PY - 2014
VL - null
IS - 29
PB - The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
SP - 07
EP - 37
SN - 1229-8387
AB - There are so many possibilities of interpretation on Augustine’s social ethics. For example, Reinhold Niebuhr regards Augustine as the first source of Christian Realism. Instead of Niebuhrian view, Stanley Hauerwas regards Augustine as the Christian Communitarianist.
More interestingly, Max L. Stackhouse considers himself as the heir of Niebuhr. He emphasizes the public faith through accepting Niebuhrian view of Augustine. The Christian ethics of Niebuhr and Stackhouse maybe belong to libertarianism. On the other hand, Hauerwas thinks Augustine’s ethics as the model of Christian Communitarianism. Hauerwas says that the most important task of Christian ethics is to enhance of gospel identity of church, in short, ‘being church’. In other words, Stackhouse and Hauerwas are different from their perspectives for Augustine’s social ethics.
But this paper’s focus is not the differences but the possibilities of mutual supplementation between Niebuhr-Stackhouse and Hauerwas. The most important element of this interpretation on Augustine’s ethics is the relations between civitas terrena and civitas Dei. Niebuhr and Stackhouse consider that the task of church as civitas Dei is to realize the values of it in civitas terrena. But, Hauerwas emphasizes the gospel identity of church as civitas Dei in itself.
This paper’s proposal is not seeking the third way between Niebuhr-Stackhouse and Hauerwas. Choosing either Niebuhr-Stackhouse or Hauerwas is not the purpose of this study. The critical and main focus is seeking the possibility of dialogue or the necessity of taking both view of Niebuhr-Stackhouse and ethics of Hauerwas for church’s moral reformation in Korea.
KW - Christian Realism;Christian Communitarianism;public theology;ecclesial ethics;Libertarian-Communitarian debate;Reinhold Niebuhr;Max L. Stackhouse;Stanley Hauerwas
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Moon, Si Young. (2014). Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 29, 07-37.
Moon, Si Young. 2014, "Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?", The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, no.29, pp.07-37.
Moon, Si Young "Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 29 pp.07-37 (2014) : 07.
Moon, Si Young. Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?. 2014; 29 : 07-37.
Moon, Si Young. "Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.29(2014) : 07-37.
Moon, Si Young. Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 29, 07-37.
Moon, Si Young. Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics. 2014; 29 07-37.
Moon, Si Young. Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?. 2014; 29 : 07-37.
Moon, Si Young. "Augustine, Christian Realist? or Christian Communitarianist?" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.29(2014) : 07-37.
