Moral Fragments and Moral Community: A Proposal for Church in SocietyFortress Press, 1993 - 176 pagina's Western society today lives from community fragments and moral fragments alone, and these fragments are being destroyed more quickly than they are being replenished. Larry Rasmussen assesses the long-term reasons for this situation and then proposes the forms and tasks that churches can undertake to help mend and improve civil society. This book, which had its origin in the Hein/Fry Lectures in 1991-92, functions both as an assessment of the moral climate in America today and also as a proposal for the church in contemporary society. |
Inhoudsopgave
Conclusion and Question | 9 |
The Church and Moral Criticism | 12 |
Modernity and Middle America | 20 |
Modernity Considered | 26 |
Hard Journey Uncertain Outcome | 34 |
Community and Civil Society | 41 |
Fast Forward | 45 |
Fragmentation | 53 |
Catechisms | 86 |
The 1980s | 89 |
Everything at Once | 100 |
Inappropriate Religion and Community | 103 |
The Ecology of Moral Community | 110 |
The Character of Community | 111 |
Communities Needed | 126 |
A People of the Way | 136 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Albert Borgmann American associational basic behavior Bellah black church Borgmann capitalism capitalist chapter character Charlene Spretnak choices Christian ethics Christopher Lasch cited citizens civil society communitarian community of moral community's core participation critical culture democracy democratic device paradigm discussion dynamics ECOLOGY OF MORAL economic ethos everything at once experience faith FRAGMENTS AND MORAL freedom HARD JOURNEY Heaven human Ibid ical identity individual institutions intimacy Jesus kind of community Lasch learned liberal living means membership ment Michael Walzer MIDDLE AMERICA million MODERNITY AND MIDDLE modernity's moral agency MORAL COMMUNITY moral conviction moral formation MORAL FRAGMENTS MORAL PROXIES munity nation nature nity Nonetheless percent political postmodern practices PRESENT CURRENTS Press Rancho San Diego reason relationships religion religious responsibility ritual second bourgeois revolution Selznick sense share social spirit things tion traditional TV dinner UNCERTAIN OUTCOME University values vision York
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