The Common Good and Christian Ethics
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Part of New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Author: David Hollenbach, Boston College, Massachusetts
- Date Published: August 2002
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- isbn: 9780521894517
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This study rethinks the ancient tradition of the common good to addressing contemporary urban and global social divisions. David Hollenbach draws on social analysis, moral philosophy, and theological ethics to chart new directions in urban life and global society. He argues that the division between the middle class and the poor in major cities and the challenges of globalization require a new commitment to the common good. Accordingly, believers and non-believers must move towards new forms of solidarity.
Read more- Rethinks the ancient tradition of the common good
- Argues that both believers and secular people must move toward new forms of solidarity
- A genuinely interdisciplinary study that draws on social analysis, moral philosophy, and theological ethics
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"David Hollenbach, S.J., charts new directions for envisioning and enacting the common good. Steeped in the debates of the past few decades and conversant with political theory, development economics, and the sociology of race, poverty, and civil society, this wide-ranging and illuminating book extends his articulation of the common good as a distinctively Catholic contribution still vital to public policy and discourse." The Journal of Religion
See more reviews"The author argues clearly, concisely and persuasively that 'the idea of the common good is an idea whose time has once again come'." Catholic Books Review
"The Common Good and Christian Ethics is not only the best work in American Catholic public philosophy in over 40 years, it is likely to remain the best for many years to come." America
"...an important addition to the 'New Studies in Christian Ethics' series...highly relevant...The Common Good and Christian Ethics combines theoretical clarity and practical substance to open new possibilities for religion in shaping public life." Theology Today
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- Date Published: August 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521894517
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
General editor's preface
Preface
Note on websites
Part I. Situations:
1. The eclipse of the public
2. Problems tolerance cannot handle
Part II. Frameworks:
3. Recovering the commonweal
4. Religion in public
5. Christianity in a community of freedom
6. Intellectual solidarity
Part III. Directions:
7. Poverty, justice, and the good of the city
8. The global common good
Bibliography
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