Politics in the Service of Society: A Response to My Interlocutors

This article is a response to Hauerwas's, O'Donovan's and Muir's engagements with Christ and the Common Life. Three distinctions that operate in the book are clarified, namely that between formal and informal politics, bottom-up forms of democratic politics and top-down forms of...

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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: Bretherton, Luke 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2019]
In: Studies in Christian ethics
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
NCD Political ethics
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B public-private distinction
B Law
B Authority
B Democracy
B statecraft
B Politics
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Summary:This article is a response to Hauerwas's, O'Donovan's and Muir's engagements with Christ and the Common Life. Three distinctions that operate in the book are clarified, namely that between formal and informal politics, bottom-up forms of democratic politics and top-down forms of statecraft, and social and political relations. In setting these out, the distinction between public and private is critiqued and two, interrelated moves made in the book are defended. First, that democratic politics precedes and sustains a liberal polity. And second, that human law and the state should serve the antecedent and superordinate good of association.
ISSN:0953-9468
Reference:Kritik von "On God and Democracy (2020)"
Kritik von "The Professional Politician and the Activist (2020)"
Kritik von "Power in Black and Pentecostal (2020)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946819897593