The Common Good and Christian Ethics

Makes both practical and theoretical contributions to the developing shape of religious life today.

David Hollenbach (Author)

9780521802055, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 August 2002

288 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.52 kg

'… another splendid addition to the impressive CUP series New Studies in Christian Ethics. Hollenbach gives us rather more than just another treatise on plurality and fragmentation, and goes a good way toward reestablishing the common good as a central component in the Christian life, and extricating Christian ethics from an increasingly sterile liberal vs. communitarian slanging match … this book is a major building block in the architecture of a renewed social Christianity.' Crucible

The Common Good and Christian Ethics rethinks the ancient tradition of the common good in a way that addresses contemporary social divisions, both urban and global. David Hollenbach draws on social analysis, moral philosophy, and theological ethics to chart new directions in both urban life and global society. He argues that the division between the middle class and the poor in major cities and the challenges of globalisation require a new commitment to the common good and that both believers and secular people must move towards new forms of solidarity if they are to live good lives together. Hollenbach proposes a positive vision of how a reconstructed understanding of the common good can lead to better lives for all today, both in cities and globally. This interdisciplinary study makes both practical and theoretical contributions to the developing shape of social, cultural, and religious life today.

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
Electronic resources
Index.

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM]