Theology and Civil Society

ISBN-13: 9781138630369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 196 str.

Charles Pemberton

Opis

Theology and Civil Society advances our understanding of what civil society is and offers a theologically informed re-imagining of our shared social life. It explores contemporary manifestations of the kind of collective action observed in civil society since the 1800s. 

Spis treści

Foreword by Rowan Williams;  Introduction, Charles Pemberton;  Part One: Civil Society as a Sphere of Association;  1 Faith in Action: Lessons from Citizens UK’s Work in East London, Jane Wills;  2 Perspectives of Change – Faith Based Organisations and Climate Change Action, Anna Huxley;  3 When Political Theology takes an Ecclesial Turn, Who is Left Out in the Cold? Revisiting Manchester’s Oxford Road with Graham Ward, Al Barrett;  Part Two: Civil Society as a Sphere of Mediation;  4 Politics in the Cyber-City, Michael Raubach;  5 Foundation, but Foundation Only: Considerations Regarding Hegel’s Account of Religion, the Modern State and Civil Society, Friedrike Schick;  6 Theology and Exclusion: From Charity to Advocacy to Deep Solidarity, Joerg Rieger;  Part Three: Theo-political Re-imaginings of Civil Society;  7 Liberalism and the Pre-Modern: A Theological Appreciation of the Politics of Jo Grimond, Ben Wood;  8 'With the Pertinacity of Bloodhounds’: Hegelian Comments on an Old Text of Fr. Daniel Berrigan's, Andrew Shanks;  9 Embedding State and Market Institutions in Civil Society: Faith, Fraternity and the Building of an Ethical Economy, Adrian Pabst;  Conclusion, Charles Pemberton

O autorze

Charles Pemberton is the William Leech Research Fellow at the department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK. He is currently researching Britain’s Food Bank network. He completed a PhD at the University of Manchester in 2016 on charity, homelessness and the doctrine of creation.