Author: William TemplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Christianity and Social Order
Author: William TemplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Christianizing the Social Order
Author: Walter RauschenbuschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Christianity and the Social Crisis
Author: Walter RauschenbuschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Conflict at Rome
Author: James S. JeffersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Utilizing archeological evidence and an analysis of two earlyChristian texts related to the church at Rome, James S. Jeffers offersa penetrating glimpse into the economic, social, and theologicaltensions of early Roman Christianity. Clement and the Shepherd ofHermas are shown to represent two decidedly conflicting conceptions ofChristianity and hierarchy: Clement represents the social elite and amore structured approach to church organization, and Hermas displays atendency toward sectarianism. Photographs and line drawings illustratearcheological evidence.
Christianizing the Social Order
Author: Walter Rauschenbush Christianity and the New Social Order
Author: John AthertonPublisher: SPCK
ISBN: 0281067716
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Is Britain a broken society? Written in accessible language that speaks directly into church, public sphere and also academy it enters the current political, economic and social policy/civil society debates concerning the values and directions of British society. It covers religion and the public square, wellbeing and happiness in the public square, the new economics, faiths and social welfare, a new political manifesto.
God’s Law and Order
Author: Aaron GriffithPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674238788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
An incisive look at how evangelical Christians shaped—and were shaped by—the American criminal justice system. America incarcerates on a massive scale. Despite recent reforms, the United States locks up large numbers of people—disproportionately poor and nonwhite—for long periods and offers little opportunity for restoration. Aaron Griffith reveals a key component in the origins of American mass incarceration: evangelical Christianity. Evangelicals in the postwar era made crime concern a major religious issue and found new platforms for shaping public life through punitive politics. Religious leaders like Billy Graham and David Wilkerson mobilized fears of lawbreaking and concern for offenders to sharpen appeals for Christian conversion, setting the stage for evangelicals who began advocating tough-on-crime politics in the 1960s. Building on religious campaigns for public safety earlier in the twentieth century, some preachers and politicians pushed for “law and order,” urging support for harsh sentences and expanded policing. Other evangelicals saw crime as a missionary opportunity, launching innovative ministries that reshaped the practice of religion in prisons. From the 1980s on, evangelicals were instrumental in popularizing criminal justice reform, making it a central cause in the compassionate conservative movement. At every stage in their work, evangelicals framed their efforts as colorblind, which only masked racial inequality in incarceration and delayed real change. Today evangelicals play an ambiguous role in reform, pressing for reduced imprisonment while backing law-and-order politicians. God’s Law and Order shows that we cannot understand the criminal justice system without accounting for evangelicalism’s impact on its historical development.
Christianity and Democracy
Author: John W. De GruchyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458412
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The need for global democratisation is now widely recognised, but there is considerable debate about what this means and how it can be achieved. In this important study John de Gruchy examines the historic and contemporary roles of Christianity in the development of democracy. He traces the gestation of modern democracy in medieval Christendom, and then describes the virtual breakdown of the relationship as democracy becomes the polity of modernity. Five twentieth-century case studies - the USA, Nicaragua, sub-Saharan Africa, Germany and South Africa - demonstrate the extent to which ecumenical Christianity has begun to reconnect with democracy and act as its contemporary midwife. De Gruchy argues that democracy needs to rediscover its spiritual heritage, while Christianity needs to develop a theology adequate for its participation in the realisation of a just democratic world order.
Christianity and the New Social Order
Author: John AthertonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780281063604
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Is Britain a broken society? Written in accessible language that speaks directly into church, public sphere and also academy it enters the current political, economic and social policy/civil society debates concerning the values and directions of British society. It covers religion and the public square, wellbeing and happiness in the public square, the new economics, faiths and social welfare, a new political manifesto.
Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order
Author: Margo ToddPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892285
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The author contends that the traditional views of puritan social thought have done a great injustice to the intellectual history of the 16th-century. Margo Todd reveals the puritans to be the heirs to a complex intellectual legacy.