Faith, Hope and Decision-Making: The Kingdom of God and Social Policy-Making - Work of Arthur Rich of Zurich: v. 35 (Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity) - Softcover

Tonks, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3820474846 ISBN 13: 9783820474848

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, 1984

Synopsis

Born in 1910 into an industrial environment in northern Switzerland, Arthur Rich's spiritual and intellectual wrestlings were how the Christian Gospel could embrace the real world of industry and work. This book tells how he worked out this Gospel and gave it a shakingly honest intellectual expression that the non-theologian could equally well discuss. What he says could be sharply illuminating in the setting of British culture and religion. For this reason his method, especially the idea that New Testament «agape-love» is a secular decision-making agent, is tested out on the issues of work and worklessness thrown up for christians and non-christians in today's British society.

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-In my opinion this is one of the most important theological contributions to our present crisis. As the crisis is not just technical and organizational, but much more culural and religious, a new, interdisciplinary and intercultural approach is needed - just the type of work that Harold Tonks has produced.- (W.J. Hollenweger, Review of Mission)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 3820474846
• ISBN 13: 9783820474848
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 333