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Christian justice and public policy /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in ideology and religion ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-268) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0511001452 9780511001451 9780521554312 0521554314 9780521556118 0521556112 0511821379 9780511821370 0511605625 9780511605628 |