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.
outstriped the evolution of Christian ethics to cope with the newly emerging problems of the society . ... of wealth through the existing social order in the West has not been successful , even in theoretically Christian communities .
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...
Featuring new essays by leading public theologians, a centennial anniversary volume considers the role of the church in transforming the world, pairs each chapter with responses by top contemporary authors, and considers the original ...
He does not see that Christianity with its conceptions of immediate responsibility of the individual to God, ... The necessities of the new social order make their teachings intelligible and acceptable as the older social order did not ...
As the narrative goes, we progressed from tyranny to freedom, from superstition to science, from poverty to wealth, from darkness to enlightenment. This is modernity’s origin myth.
238 ; curbing of immoralities of , by the Christianity , the social , of Jesus , 48-68 ; State , 239 ; law and morals broken ... 97-98 ; justification of the of new social convictions in a creed by , turning away from mere , 106-107 .