Comprehending Power In Christian Social Ethics (American Academy Of Religion Academy Series) - Couverture souple

Hinze, Christine Firer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0788501682 ISBN 13 : 9780788501685

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1995

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Book by Hinze Christine Firer

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Christine Firer Hinze examines how socio-political power has been modeled in recent social theory and Christian ethics, and considers its theological and sociological underpinnings. The interaction of two models of power, "power over" and "power to" is traced in the works of selected religious (Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Maritain, Paul Tillich, and Martin Luther King, Jr.) and social (Max Weber, Karl Marx, Hannah ARendt, Michel Foucault, and Anthony Giddens) theorists of the past century. Hinze advances a constructive argument in favor of a theory that systematically integrates power's superordinating and collaborative features, and does so in a manner that coheres with the ethicist's underlying theological and sociological commitments. Appealing to a variety of warrants, she offers a comprehensive approach to power that takes "power to" as its descriptive and normative starting point and relegates "power over" to a limited and strictly instrumental role in socio-political practice.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0788501682
• ISBN 13: 9780788501685
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328