RT Article
T1 Politics in the Service of Society: A Response to My Interlocutors
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 33
IS 2
SP 262
OP 270
A1 Bretherton, Luke 1968-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1694666921
AB 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.
K1 Politics
K1 Authority
K1 Democracy
K1 Law
K1 public-private distinction
K1 statecraft
DO 10.1177/0953946819897593