The Professional Politician and the Activist

Luke Bretherton wishes to encourage informal political activity, and asserts a contrast between two complementary and alternative ways of doing politics, formal and informal. But the tendency in his descriptions is to replace formal with informal politics, which is then in danger of being left witho...

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Published in:Studies in Christian ethics
Subtitles:A Symposium on Luke Bretherton’s Christ and the Common Life : Political Theology and the Case for Democracy
Main Author: O'Donovan, Oliver 1945- (Author)
Contributors: Bretherton, Luke 1968- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2020]
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Review of:Christ and the common life (Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019) (O'Donovan, Oliver)
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Justice
B power and authority
B professional and informal politics
B Book review
B change and stability
B private and public
B Political Theology
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:Luke Bretherton wishes to encourage informal political activity, and asserts a contrast between two complementary and alternative ways of doing politics, formal and informal. But the tendency in his descriptions is to replace formal with informal politics, which is then in danger of being left without responsibility to the structures of political society.
ISSN:0953-9468
Reference:Kritik in "Politics in the Service of Society (2019)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946819897591