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Essays in Calvinist Social Theory. What Do Religion, Politics and Science Contribute to the Good Society
| Author: | Richardson, Herbert W. | |
| Year: | 2016 | |
| Pages: | 244 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-0498-0 978-1-4955-0498-3 | |
| Price: | $179.95 | |
This book, not an original work of the author but a graduate school project, collects essays that apply Calvinist political theology to a wide range of social issues. Calvinism’s impact upon society is so great that it has frequently been accused of being the cause of all the problems of modernity: the destruction of organic community, the domination of technology, the universalization of rationality, and a cost-benefit economic approach to all problems in life.
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This collection of essays are all expressions of Calvinist social theory. They were written and published in the past two decades. Some of them deal with particular social issues: civil religion, non-violent action, surrogate motherhood, the functions of science and politics, and abortion. Others deal with philosophical questions: the character of human freedom, pluralism, various ideas of transcendence, and a theory of values. Taken together these essays exemplify the Calvinist theological perspective.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Sociotechnic Age
Chapter 2: What Makes A Society Political?
Chapter 3: Civil Religion in a Theological Perspective
Chapter 4: Martin Luther King: Unsung Theologian
Chapter 5: What Do Religion, Politics and Science Each Contribute to the Creation of a Good Society?
Chapter 6: What is the Value of Life?
Chapter 7: God is the Creator of Human Life: A Calvinist Defense of Surrogate Motherhood
Chapter 8: Freedom and the Will: A Christian Theory
Chapter 9: A Philosophy of Unity
Chapter 10: Three Myths of Transcendence
Chapter 2: What Makes A Society Political?
Chapter 3: Civil Religion in a Theological Perspective
Chapter 4: Martin Luther King: Unsung Theologian
Chapter 5: What Do Religion, Politics and Science Each Contribute to the Creation of a Good Society?
Chapter 6: What is the Value of Life?
Chapter 7: God is the Creator of Human Life: A Calvinist Defense of Surrogate Motherhood
Chapter 8: Freedom and the Will: A Christian Theory
Chapter 9: A Philosophy of Unity
Chapter 10: Three Myths of Transcendence