The Common Good and Christian Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780521894517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str.

S. J. Hollenbach; David Hollenbach; Stephen R. L. Clark

Opis

This study rethinks the ancient tradition of the common good to addressing contemporary urban and global social divisions. David Hollenbach draws on social analysis, moral philosophy, and theological ethics to chart new directions in urban life and global society. He argues that the division between the middle class and the poor in major cities and the challenges of globalization require a new commitment to the common good. Accordingly, believers and non-believers must move towards new forms of solidarity.

Recenzje

'… another splendid addition to the impressive CUP series New Studies in Christian Ethics. Hollenbach gives us rather more than just another treatise on plurality and fragmentation, and goes a good way toward reestablishing the common good as a central component in the Christian life, and extricating Christian ethics from an increasingly sterile liberal vs. communitarian slanging match … this book is a major building block in the architecture of a renewed social Christianity.' Crucible

Spis treści

General editor's preface; Preface; Note on websites; Part I. Situations: 1. The eclipse of the public; 2. Problems tolerance cannot handle; Part II. Frameworks: 3. Recovering the commonweal; 4. Religion in public; 5. Christianity in a community of freedom; 6. Intellectual solidarity; Part III. Directions: 7. Poverty, justice, and the good of the city; 8. The global common good; Bibliography; Electronic resources; Index.