Charles T. Mathewes is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where he teaches theology, ethics, and religion and culture. He has published in The Journal of Religious Ethics, Modern Theology, The Journal of Religion, Anglican Theological Review and The Hedgehog Review.
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.
