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Communities of Restoration - Ecclesial Ethics and Restorative Justice (Hardcover)
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Communities of Restoration - Ecclesial Ethics and Restorative Justice (Hardcover)
Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
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By bringing together the insights of ecclesial ethics, an approach
that emphasizes the distinctive nature of the church as the
community that forms its mind and character after its reading of
Scripture, with the theory and practice of restorative justice, a
way of conceiving justice-making that emerged from the
Mennonite-Anabaptist tradition, this book shows why a theological
account of the theory and practice of restorative justice is
fruitful for articulating and clarifying the witness of the church,
especially when faced with conflict or wrongdoing. This can help
extend the church's imagination as to how it might better become
God's community of restoration as it reflects on the ways in which
the justice of God is taking shape in its own community. "How does
an ecclesial context shape the theological apprehension and praxis
of justice?" This question orientates the book. In particular, it
asks how, in view of its members having been admitted into God's
restoring justice in Christ, the church might embody in the world
this same justice of restoring right relationships. While Christian
reflection on the nature of justice has tended to favour a judicial
and retributive conception of justice, it will be argued that the
biblical understanding of the justice of God is best understood as
a saving, liberating, and restorative justice. It is this
restorative conception that ought to guide the community that reads
Scripture so that it might be embodied in life.
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