Early Thought Research Articles

The Rope and the Chains: Machiavelli's Early Thought and its Transformations by Cary J. Nederman (review)

The Rope and the Chains: Machiavelli's Early Thought and its Transformations by Cary J. Nederman (review)

Augustine’s Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgment, by Bart Van Egmond

Augustine’s Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgment, by Bart Van Egmond. Oxford Early Christian Studies, Gillian Clark and Andrew Louth, general editors. Oxford University Press, 2018. 304pp. Hb. $130.00. ISBN-13: 9780198834922. Also available as an Ebook and through Oxford Scholarship Online.

Antisemitism and Anti-(International) Capitalism in the Early Thought of Adolf Hitler, 1919–1924

Antisemitism and Anti-(International) Capitalism in the Early Thought of Adolf Hitler, 1919–1924

<i>Augustine’s Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement</i>, by Bart Van Egmond

Augustine’s Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement, by Bart Van Egmond. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford University Press, 2018. 304pp., Hb. $110. ISBN-13: 9780198834922. Also available as an Ebook and online.

The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought. Ed. by Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton, and Jill Kraye

<i>The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought</i>. Ed. by <scp>Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton</scp>, and <scp>Jill Kraye</scp>

Augustine’s Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement

Augustine’s Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement

Augustine’s Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement

Augustine’s Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement

Philosophers, Mystics, and Other Sages: Wisdom in Early Islamic Thought

Philosophers, Mystics, and Other Sages: Wisdom in Early Islamic Thought

Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought: The Beginning of All Things by Joseph Torchia

Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought: The Beginning of All Things by Joseph Torchia

The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought. Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton, and Jill Kraye, eds. Warburg Institute Colloquia 33. London: Warburg Institute, 2019. x + 246 pp. £41.60.

The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought. Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton, and Jill Kraye, eds. Warburg Institute Colloquia 33. London: Warburg Institute, 2019. x + 246 pp. £41.60.

Traces of the Post Secular: Early Catholic Social Thought, the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists and the Pursuit of the Common Good

ABSTRACT This paper will consider how early Catholic social encyclicals, while motivated by religious beliefs, often deployed secular language to describe and promote their view of social justice. A view that included a religiously motived critique of industrial capitalism and an ethical concern for the rights of workers. While these encyclicals view of justice was not acceptable to all members of society, they were expressed in language which was comprehensible to most members of the public. The article will explore how labor activists, such as the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, understood and applied themes from these encyclicals, notably in their efforts to collaborate with non-Catholics in the formation of secular unions. It will advance the view that such collaboration may be understood as a precursor to some contemporary recommendations concerning post-secular dialogue and co-operation in the interests of justice. Particularly as formulated by Jurgen Habermas and Cardinal Blasé Cupich.

Joseph Torchia, O.P., Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought: The Beginning of All Things

Joseph Torchia, O.P., Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought: The Beginning of All Things

Ing, Michael D. K.,The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought

Ing, Michael D. K.,The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought

Islamic Ecumenism in the Early Political Thought of Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh

AbstractBetween the late 1960s and early 1970s, political-economic turmoil led not only to the exodus of religious scholars and students from Iraq to Lebanon but also to the transnationalization of their activism. As they settled in Lebanon, these activists circulated key Islamist concepts that transcended religious factionalism. This article examines the early 1970s’ political thought of the Lebanese intellectual Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh (d. 2010), a prominent returning cleric from Iraq, intervening in discussions on the formative ideas of the Shiʿi Islamic movement in Lebanon. Furthermore, an analysis of concepts in Faḍlallāh’s works highlights a climate of intellectual openness and Islamic ecumenism. Linking the development of Faḍlallāh’s ecumenical thinking to the formation of overlapping spaces of activism in a context of secular-religious encounters in Iraq from the 1950s, this article also contributes to the scholarship that argues against the assumption that sectarianism, involving Sunni and Shiʿi Muslims, has existed since the onset of political discord in early Islam.

The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought, by Michael D. K. Ing

The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought, by Michael D. K. Ing

‘No One Can Serve Two Masters’: The Unity of Philosophy and Theology in Ricœur’s Early Thought

Abstract While the French philosopher Paul Ricœur is not usually thought of as an existentialist, during his early career he engaged deeply with existentialist thought, and published two articles on the relationship between existentialism and Christian faith. Ricœur’s attempts to relate philosophy and theology often led to great personal distress, which he occasionally referred to as “controlled schizophrenia,” in which he struggled to remain faithful to both philosophical and theological discourse without compromising one for the sake of the other. This essay first explores the influence of existentialist philosophy on Ricœur before surveying how Ricœur understood existentialism, and how in his view it transforms the relationship between philosophy and theology. It then shows how Ricœur is ultimately able to retain his “dual allegiance” to both discourses through active hope in how the Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo testifies to their original and final unity.

Ideological Origins of a Radical Democrat: The Early Political Thought of Tom L. Johnson, 1888–1895

Ideological Origins of a Radical Democrat: The Early Political Thought of Tom L. Johnson, 1888–1895

Xenophanes and the Rise of Theology in Early Greek Thought

Xenophanes and the Rise of Theology in Early Greek Thought

The Early Thought of Siegfried Kracauer

The Early Thought of Siegfried Kracauer

Sībawayhi’s Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought. By Michael G. Carter

This article reviews Sībawayhi’s Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought 1937040585$ 49.95