The Family In Christian Social And Political Thought
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Author | : Brent Waters |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2007-07-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199271968 |
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An alternative voice in the culture wars over 'family values'. Brent Waters proposes a normative account of the family's role in social and political ordering that draws upon a spectrum of theological and philosophical resources. He contends that when families are properly ordered they are oriented toward broader spheres of human association.
Author | : Brent Waters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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"A number of culture wars are currently being waged over 'family values'. Critics claim that the family is an antiquated and patriarchal institution which has institutionalized inequality, and needs to be radically reformed if not abolished. Defenders contend that the traditional nuclear or bourgeois family should be upheld and supported as the moral foundation of civil society. What has been largely missing in these acrimonious disputes is sustained theological reflection which rejects both strident criticism and crude defence. The purpose of this book is to critically examine the historical roots of these culture wars, as well as assess the late liberal social and political context in which they are waged. It also recovers biblical and theological themes in proposing a normative account of the family that offers an alternative form of public moral discourse regarding the family's role in social and political ordering."--Résumé de l'éditeur
Author | : Brent Waters |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2007-07-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 019153398X |
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Brent Waters examines the historical roots and contemporary implications of the virtual disappearance of the family in late liberal and Christian social and political thought. Waters argues that the principal cause of this disappearance is late liberalism's fixation on individual autonomy, which renders familial bonds unintelligible. He traces the history of this emphasis, from its origin in Hobbes and Locke, through Kant, to such contemporary theorists as Rawls and Okin. In response, Waters offers an alternative normative account of the family's role in social and political ordering, drawing upon the work of Althusius, Grotius, Dooyeweerd, and O'Donovan.
Author | : Scott Yenor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download Family Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With crisp prose and intellectual fairness, Family Politics traces the treatment of the family in the philosophies of leading political thinkers of the modern world. What is family? What is marriage? In an effort to address contemporary society's disputes over the meanings of these human social institutions, Scott Yenor carefully examines a roster of major and unexpected modern political philosophers--from Locke and Rousseau to Hegel and Marx to Freud and Beauvoir. He lucidly presents how these individuals developed an understanding of family in order to advance their goals of political and social reform. Through this exploration, Yenor unveils the effect of modern liberty on this foundational institution and argues that the quest to pursue individual autonomy has undermined the nature of marriage and jeopardizes its future.
Author | : J. Budziszewski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Evangelicals in the Public Square Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this work, J. Budziszewski examines evangelical political thought over the past fifty years through four key figures--Carl F. H. Henry, Abraham Kuyper, Francis Schaeffer, and John Howard Yoder--to argue that, in addition to Scripture, the evangelical political movement should be informed by the tradition of natural law. David L. Weeks (Azusa Pacific University) responds on Henry, William Edgar (Westminster Seminary) responds to the Schaeffer section, John Bolt (Calvin Seminary) comments on Kuyper, and Ashley Woodiwiss (Wheaton College) offers remarks on the Yoder portion. Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago) provides the afterword, summarizing the dialogue and offering her own observations. In addition, the book includes an introduction by Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Author | : Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107168899 |
Download Human Dependency and Christian Ethics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book engages Christian love theologies, feminist economics, and political theory to identify elements of a Christian ethic of dependent care relations.
Author | : Malcolm Brown |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2014-07-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0715144715 |
Download Anglican Social Theology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume, commissioned by a group of Bishops in hard-hit dioceses, looks to develop strong theological foundations for local social action initiatives by churches, especially for activists who are not familiar with the Church of England’s tradition of social theology, developed by William Temple and others a century ago.
Author | : Petruschka Schaafsma |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2023-08-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1009324616 |
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Explores family not as a problem but as a mystery in order to understand its current controversial character.
Author | : Jeremy Waldron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Equality |
ISBN | : 9780511072659 |
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This concise new study from a senior political philosopher looks at the principle of equality in the thought of John Locke. Throughout the text Jeremy Waldron discusses contemporary approaches to equality and rival interpretations of Locke, and this gives the whole an unusual degree of accessibility and intellectual excitement.
Author | : Michaela Kusnierikova |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1506409016 |
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This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient. In this, Arendt’s concept of action and her criticism of privatizing the public political space by viewing it as a family are engaged through Bonhoeffer’s ecclesiology and political theology and Stăniloae’s triadology and theology of the world. The roots of the different views of Arendt and Bonhoeffer on family symbolism are traced to their distinct notions of acting. Human action becomes the central theme of the debate—particularly influenced by the Eastern Orthodox ecumenist Stăniloae and his vision of the communal relationship and interactivity of human subjects, and their place in the world. Synthesizing Bonhoeffer and Stăniloae, Christian calling is unfolded not only as acting for others, but also with others as Trinitarian participatory response—response to the words and deeds of the three divine Persons acting in communion. In being drawn into these unique relations, human beings are empowered for communal and common acting of equals participating in public-political issues. Since the family metaphor fails to articulate such acting, this study complements this symbolism with the metaphor of the church as a political community of solidarity.