Together for the Common Good

Anna Rowlands; Andrew Bradstock; Patrick Riordan SJ; Esther D. Reed; Samuel Burgess; Jon E. Wilson; Jonathan Chaplin; Tehmina Kazi; Malcolm Brown; Brian Griffiths; Philip Booth; Maurice Glasman; Clifford Longley

ISBN 10: 0334053242 / ISBN 13: 9780334053248

Published by Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd, 2015

In English. Seller Inventory # ria9780334053248_new

Synopsis:

How can we work together for the common good today? Thirteen contributors – Christian, Jewish, Muslim, non-religious – discuss the common good from a wide range of viewpoints. How have thinkers like Aristotle and Edmund Burke talked about the common good in the past? Catholic Social Teaching has a lot to say about the common good: what does the common good mean for the world’s great religious traditions today? How can we usefully talk about the common good in a plural society? What responsibility has the state for the common good? Can the market serve the common good? If we care about the common good, what should we think – and do - about immigration, education, the NHS, inequality, and freedom? This book starts from the example of David Sheppard and Derek Worlock, the Anglican Bishop and Roman Catholic Archbishop, who famously worked together for the good of the city of Liverpool in the 1980s. The contributors call for a national conversation about how, despite our differences, we can work together – locally, nationally, internationally – for the common good.

About the Authors: Nicholas Sagovsky is an Anglican priest and holds professorial posts in Theology at two ecumenical universities: Liverpool Hope and Roehampton. He has been Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey, William Leech Professorial Research Fellow in Applied Christian Theology at Newcastle University and Dean of Clare College, Cambridge.

Peter McGrail is Head of the Department of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Together for the Common Good
Publisher: Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New