Faith in the public square
By: Rowan Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781408187586
Subjects: Social conditions; Anglican Communion; Church and social problems
Description: This book contains critical commentary on contemporary issues by Rowan Williams, in his final book as Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation. His views are consistent and orthodox and yet he has been consistently misunderstood - especially in relation to his views on contemporary society, public morality and the common good. In this, the final published work of his Archepiscopate, Dr. Williams has assembled a series of chapters on matters of immediate public concern and the relationship of Christianity to these issues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Secularism and its discontents. Has secularism failed?; title: Secularism, faith and freedom; title: - Convictions, loyalties and the secular state; title: Law, power and peace; title: Europe, faith and culture; title: Religion, diversity and tolerance; title: The spiritual and the religious : is the territory changing?; title: Living within limits : liberalism, pluralism and law. Multiculturalism : friend or foe?; title: Faith and enlightenment; title: Pluralism : public and religious; title: Religious hatred and religious offence; title: Do human rights exist?; title: Reconnecting human rights and religious faith; title: Living with limits : the environment. Changing the myths we live by; title: Renewing the face of the earth : human responsibility and the environment; title: Climate crisis : fashioning a Christian response; title: Housekeeping : the economic challenge. Ethics, economics and global justice; title: Theology and economics : two different worlds; title: Justice in community. Sustainable communities; title: The gifts reserved for age : perceptions of the elderly; title: Reforming punishment; title: Big society, small world?; title: Religious diversity and civil agreement. Analysing atheism: unbelief and the world of faiths; title: Religious diversity and social unity; title: Faith communities in a civil society; title: Rediscovering religion. Religious lives.