Christianity and Social Order
Author | : William Temple |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Christian sociology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Temple |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Christian sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rosemary Radford Ruether |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 074254642X |
"From the earliest interactions of Christians with the Roman Empire to today's debates about the separation of church and state, the Christian churches have been in complex relationships with various economic and political system for centuries. Renowned theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether analyzes the ways Christian churches historically interacted with powerful systems such as patriarchy, racism, slavery and environmentalism, while looking critically at how the church shapes these systems today. This book is neither an attack on the relationship between Christianity and these systems nor an apology bur rather a nuanced examination of the interactions between them. By understanding how these interactions have shaped history, we can more fully understand how to make ethical decisions about the role of Christianity in some of today's most pressing social issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Walter Rauschenbusch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Christian sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter Rauschenbusch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Christian sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James S. Jeffers |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Utilizing archeological evidence and an analysis of two earlyChristian texts related to the church at Rome, James S. Jeffers offersa penetrating glimpse into the economic, social, and theologicaltensions of early Roman Christianity. Clement and the Shepherd ofHermas are shown to represent two decidedly conflicting conceptions ofChristianity and hierarchy: Clement represents the social elite and amore structured approach to church organization, and Hermas displays atendency toward sectarianism. Photographs and line drawings illustratearcheological evidence.
Author | : John Atherton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780281063604 |
Is Britain a broken society? Written in accessible language that speaks directly into church, public sphere and also academy it enters the current political, economic and social policy/civil society debates concerning the values and directions of British society. It covers religion and the public square, wellbeing and happiness in the public square, the new economics, faiths and social welfare, a new political manifesto.
Author | : Aaron Griffith |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674238788 |
An incisive look at how evangelical Christians shaped—and were shaped by—the American criminal justice system. America incarcerates on a massive scale. Despite recent reforms, the United States locks up large numbers of people—disproportionately poor and nonwhite—for long periods and offers little opportunity for restoration. Aaron Griffith reveals a key component in the origins of American mass incarceration: evangelical Christianity. Evangelicals in the postwar era made crime concern a major religious issue and found new platforms for shaping public life through punitive politics. Religious leaders like Billy Graham and David Wilkerson mobilized fears of lawbreaking and concern for offenders to sharpen appeals for Christian conversion, setting the stage for evangelicals who began advocating tough-on-crime politics in the 1960s. Building on religious campaigns for public safety earlier in the twentieth century, some preachers and politicians pushed for “law and order,” urging support for harsh sentences and expanded policing. Other evangelicals saw crime as a missionary opportunity, launching innovative ministries that reshaped the practice of religion in prisons. From the 1980s on, evangelicals were instrumental in popularizing criminal justice reform, making it a central cause in the compassionate conservative movement. At every stage in their work, evangelicals framed their efforts as colorblind, which only masked racial inequality in incarceration and delayed real change. Today evangelicals play an ambiguous role in reform, pressing for reduced imprisonment while backing law-and-order politicians. God’s Law and Order shows that we cannot understand the criminal justice system without accounting for evangelicalism’s impact on its historical development.
Author | : John W. De Gruchy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1995-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521458412 |
The need for global democratisation is now widely recognised, but there is considerable debate about what this means and how it can be achieved. In this important study John de Gruchy examines the historic and contemporary roles of Christianity in the development of democracy. He traces the gestation of modern democracy in medieval Christendom, and then describes the virtual breakdown of the relationship as democracy becomes the polity of modernity. Five twentieth-century case studies - the USA, Nicaragua, sub-Saharan Africa, Germany and South Africa - demonstrate the extent to which ecumenical Christianity has begun to reconnect with democracy and act as its contemporary midwife. De Gruchy argues that democracy needs to rediscover its spiritual heritage, while Christianity needs to develop a theology adequate for its participation in the realisation of a just democratic world order.
Author | : Andrew Willard Jones |
Publisher | : Emmaus Academic |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1945125403 |
Author | : Charles Taylor |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 889 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674986911 |
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.