A World for All?

by Storrar, William F.; Casarella, Peter J.; Metzger, Paul Louis; Naidoo, Kumi

• ISBN13: 9780802827425
• ISBN10: 080282742X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-22
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Reflecting on globalization, ethics, and religion, social theorists and theologians consider answers to this pivotal question. In their ecumenical, interdisciplinary dialogue, capped off by five local case studies from around the world, they contemplate a globally inclusive social vision unbounded by national and ethnic borders and examine the ongoing relationship between civil society and the church that worships a Trinitarian God. Book jacket.

Author Biography

William F. Storrar is director of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton. Peter J. Casarella is professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University. Paul Louis Metzger is professor of Christian theology and theology of culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
The Editors' Preface	p. xi
Political Theory, Ethics, and Global Civil Society
Introduction to Part I	p. 3
A World for All? Thoughts on Global Civil Society	p. 17
Can Global Civil Society Civilize the International? Some Reflections	p. 40
Civil Society, Religion, and the Ethical Shape of Polity	p. 59
The Place of Religion in Civil Society: Thomas Reid, Philosophical Rhetoric, and the Role of the Preacher	p. 75
Trinity, Church, and Global Civil Society
Introduction to Part II	p. 93
Trinity and Church in a Global Civil Society
Global Civil Society, Church Unity, and World Unity	p. 108
Thinking Out Loud about the Triune God: Problems and Prospects for a Trinitarian Social Ethic in a Procedural Republic	p. 122
ôPublicö Re-Imagined: A Reconsideration of Church, State, and Civil Society	p. 135
Resources from the Christian Tradition for a Global Conversation
Early Christianity and Politics: Its Real Role and Potential Contribution	p. 154
Intertwined Interaction: Reading Gregory of Nazianzus amidst Inter-religious Realities in India	p. 162
Jonathan Edwards, Francis Hutcheson, and the Problems and Prospects of Civil Society	p. 178
Contextual Approaches to a Global Civil Society
Pentecost as the Church's Cosmopolitan Vision of Global Civil Society: A Post-Communist Eastern European Theological Perspective	p. 197
Church, God, and Civil Society - A Namibian Case Study	p. 221
Worship - and Civil Society? Perspectives from a Reformed Tradition in South Africa	p. 249
Trinity, Church, and Society in Brazil	p. 265
Beyond the Culture Wars: Contours of Authentic Dialogue	p. 282
Epilogue: On ôthe Globalö in Global Civil Society: Towards a Theological Archaeology of the Present	p. 299
Contributors	p. 331
Index	p. 337
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