Sex Offenders, Society, and the New Zealand Church
Channel: Neil Bradley
Date: 15/09/2012

For my friends, colleagues and lecturers who had the misfortune of sitting through my abysmal execution of this first time around.

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Sex Offenders, Society, and the New Zealand Church
Reconciling and Reincorporating the Lost
By Neil Bradley

MI700 Integrative Paper 2012
Carey Baptist College
Auckland, New Zealand

What is the Church's right response regarding the rehabilitation of sex offenders in New Zealand? Communities everywhere seem to struggle with these persons. Even rehabilitated, these people are stigmatised and shunned by New Zealand society for the rest of their lives. How do we understand this issue, and what practical outcomes could this lead us to? These questions will be answered in three stages. First, I will seek to understand the issues involved in the rehabilitation and reconciliation of convicted sex offenders into New Zealand society. Second, these issues will be looked at through a theodramatic understanding of Soteriology: Christ's saving work in the world. And finally, some conclusions will be drawn as to the Church's appropriate missional response, both ideally and already implemented in New Zealand. 


In case its important, these resources were referenced for this project.

Kwast, L.; 
"Understanding Culture", 361-64 in 
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader.
Eds. Winter, R. D., and Hawthorne, S. C.;
Pasadena, California: William Carey Library, 1981.

Wells, S.;
Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2004.

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