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Christian justice and public policy / Duncan B. Forrester.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in ideology and religion ; 10.Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511001452
  • 9780511001451
  • 9780521554312
  • 0521554314
  • 9780521556118
  • 0521556112
  • 0511821379
  • 9780511821370
  • 0511605625
  • 9780511605628
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christian justice and public policy.DDC classification:
  • 261.8 21
LOC classification:
  • BR115.J8 F67 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Theology and public policy yesterday and today -- 'Nobody knows what justice is': the problem of justice in a morally fragmented society -- Punishment and prisons -- Poverty -- Fairness is not enough -- Justice and the market -- Communication, gender and justice -- Lively and truthful survivals? -- Love, justice and justification -- Justice and community -- The hope of justice.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-268) and indexes.

Theology and public policy yesterday and today -- 'Nobody knows what justice is': the problem of justice in a morally fragmented society -- Punishment and prisons -- Poverty -- Fairness is not enough -- Justice and the market -- Communication, gender and justice -- Lively and truthful survivals? -- Love, justice and justification -- Justice and community -- The hope of justice.

Print version record.

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.

English.

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