Christian Justice and Public PolicyCambridge University Press, 28/08/1997 - 274 páginas Disagreements about justice are not simply academic matters. They create problems for practice and for policy-making. In a morally fragmented society in which 'nobody knows what justice is' issues such as wages policy, punishment and poverty become particularly difficult to handle. People striving to act justly are often uncertain how this might be done. Secular theories such as those of Rowls, Hayek, Habermas and modern feminist theorists, examined here, give some guidance for problems of justice that arise on the ground, but have serious limitations. This book argues that Christian theology, although it can no longer claim to provide a comprehensive theory of justice, can provide insights into justice - 'theological fragments' - which give illumination, challenge some aspects of the conventional wisdom, and contribute to the building of just communities in which people may flourish in mutuality and hope. |
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Página i
... issues such as wages policy , punishment and poverty become particularly diffi- cult to handle . People striving to act justly are often uncertain how this might be done . Secular theories such as those of Rawls , Hayek , Habermas and ...
... issues such as wages policy , punishment and poverty become particularly diffi- cult to handle . People striving to act justly are often uncertain how this might be done . Secular theories such as those of Rawls , Hayek , Habermas and ...
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... issues which - while of wide potential interest - have been largely neglected by analytical investi- gation , apart from the appearance of sporadic individual studies . Intended to enable debate to proceed at a higher level , the series ...
... issues which - while of wide potential interest - have been largely neglected by analytical investi- gation , apart from the appearance of sporadic individual studies . Intended to enable debate to proceed at a higher level , the series ...
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... issues of which they are but symptoms . The second source comprises studies by social scientists who often adopt a func- tionalist and reductionist view of the faith and beliefs which motivate those directly involved in such situations ...
... issues of which they are but symptoms . The second source comprises studies by social scientists who often adopt a func- tionalist and reductionist view of the faith and beliefs which motivate those directly involved in such situations ...
Página xii
... issue of justice . Specific theological insights emerge in chapters dealing with two major issues of concern in contem- porary society , poverty and penal policy . Religion no longer occupies the place it did in western societies as an ...
... issue of justice . Specific theological insights emerge in chapters dealing with two major issues of concern in contem- porary society , poverty and penal policy . Religion no longer occupies the place it did in western societies as an ...
Página xiii
... Issues ( CTPI ) in the University of Edinburgh to relate theology and some specific questions on the public agenda . I am immensely indebted to a wide range of people from diverse specialities and life experiences who have contributed ...
... Issues ( CTPI ) in the University of Edinburgh to relate theology and some specific questions on the public agenda . I am immensely indebted to a wide range of people from diverse specialities and life experiences who have contributed ...
Índice
Theology and Public yesterday and today | 9 |
Nobody knows what justice is the problem of justice in a morally fragmented society | 38 |
POLICIES AND PRACTICES | 61 |
Punishment and prisons | 63 |
Poverty | 86 |
THEORIES AND THEOLOGIES | 111 |
Fairness is not enough | 113 |
Justice and the market | 140 |
THEOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS | 193 |
Lively and truthful survivals? | 195 |
Love justice and justification | 205 |
Justice and community | 230 |
The hope of justice | 246 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página vii - He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?