Who or What is controlling our lives? Western society is in the
process of undergoing profound changes in moral ethos and in the
structure of relationships as more and more areas of life are
commodified. The Church is now having to grapple with the
challenges to its authority-patterns posed by contemporary
individualism, reductionism, consumerism and moral relativism, as
the fierce debates over issues of abortion and sexuality show. This
book seeks to address theologically the question of authority in
terms of the poles of freedom and form. The tendency of each pole
is to dominate. When freedom dominates we have chaos but when form
dominates we have control (as exemplified in Islamic societies).
Thus the choice facing the West looks like one between chaos and
control. Bradshaw argues that this is a false choice. He suggests
that Christ is the form for human freedom and diversity and that
the Church has sufficient apostolic guides and practices to chart
its way ahead in faith. The book maintains that Western, liberal,
capitalist democracy needs to recover a Christian ethical basis to
avoid the dangers of both chaos and of control.
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