This book seeks to address theologically the question of authority in terms of the poles of freedom and form. The tendency of each pole is to dominate. When freedom dominates we have chaos but when form dominates we have control (as exemplified in Islamic societies). Thus the choice facing the West looks like one between chaos and control.
Bradshaw argues that this is a false choice. He suggests that Christ is the form for human freedom and diversity, and that the Church has sufficient apostolic guides and practices to chart its way ahead in faith. The book maintains that Western, liberal, capitalist democracy needs to recover a Christian ethical basis to avoid the dangers of both chaos and of control.
ISBN: 9781842276433
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: PATERNOSTER PRESS - published 01/07/2010
Format: Paperback