Christian justice and public policy
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Christian justice and public policy
(Cambridge studies in ideology and religion, 10)
Cambridge University Press, c1997
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  Germany
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-268) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Justice in Dispute: 1. Theology and public policy yesterday and today
- 2. 'Nobody knows what justice is': the problem of justice in a morally fragmented society
- Part II. Policies and Practices: 3. Punishment and prisons
- 4. Poverty
- Part III. Theories and Theologies: 5. Fairness is not enough
- 6. Justice and the market
- 7. Communication, gender and justice
- Part IV. Theological Fragments: 8. Lively and truthful survivals? 9. Love, justice and justification
- 10. Justice and community
- 11. The hope of justice
- Conclusion.
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