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Christian Faith, Justice, and a Politics of Mercy - The Benevolent Community (Hardcover)
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Christian Faith, Justice, and a Politics of Mercy - The Benevolent Community (Hardcover)
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This book assumes that the most profound moral conflict today is
between two virtues-justice and mercy. I argue that the two are
organically linked through the common experience of compassion. In
an unjust world, justice cannot establish itself, but requires, in
public as well as private life, projects of merciful benevolence;
for two reasons: because mercy alone has the power to subvert
patterns of injustice, and because mercy and projects of
benevolence are tailored to establish and sustain patterns of
justice, especially fair economic outcomes. To show this, against
Rawl's Difference Principle, I argue for a Distribution Principle,
which states that social and economic inequalities should be
addressed by policies that directly and primarily benefit the least
advantaged members of society, while at the same time minimizing
burdens and/or maximizing benefits for the most advantaged.Along
the way I show how in the United States benevolence as a public
virtue was disestablished along with religion; how it might and
should be re-established without re-establishing religion; and how
the Christian tradition provides resources for evolving morally
from a liberal, procedural practice of justice to one that embraces
egalitarian, economic justice as well. Gandhi and King are prime
historical examples who practiced merciful benevolence and
something like a Distribution Principle. Finally, I show how in the
global community today, Christianity and other traditions can and
should make benevolent community a reality.
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