The essays in this volume emerged from a special colloquium held in Manchester in 2003 to mark the ninetieth anniversary of Ronald Preston's birth. The volume therefore has two objectives: firstly, to identify Ronald Preston's distinctive contribution to Christian social ethics, to set him in the context of his own influences and concerns and to evaluate his work; and secondly, to consider how far his legacy might fare into the twenty-first century. A central question at the heart of many of the papers in this volume is therefore the extent to which Preston's work offers contemporary Christian social ethics a viable tradition by which some of the central concerns of Preston's thought - economics, Church and state, ecumenism and public theology - can be carried forward into a changing world.
In general, therefore, these articles conclude that there is much in Preston's work that still provides significant inspiration for Christian social ethics in the twenty-first century, and that many of Preston's core preoccupations, such as the nature of Christian moral reasoning, the possibilities for a 'public theology' in a plural society, and the vital importance of political economy for a credible Christian witness, still remain as vital and relevant today.
- ISBN10 0567082474
- ISBN13 9780567082473
- Publish Date 1 September 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 July 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint T.& T.Clark Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English