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Does social justice promote Christian unity? With reference to
paragraph 12 of Unitatis Redintegratio--Vatican II's declaration on
ecumenism--this book argues that an emphasis on justice and unity
without proper consideration of social context actually risks
obscuring a clear public declaration of Christ, by having
Christians uncritically accept the presumptions that underpin the
sociopolitical status quo. This constitutes a failure in Christian
interpretation, the crux of which is a failure in ecclesiology.
Matthew John Paul Tan suggests the beginnings of a corrective with
reference to works by Pope Benedict XVI, theologians such as Graham
Ward, and postmodern theorists like Michel Foucault. Ultimately,
Tan invites the reader to begin considering how answering this
seemingly simple question will implicate not only theology, but
also philosophy and political theory, as well as considering the
need for the church to engage in a bolder confessional politics in
place of the politics of the public square often favored by
Christian and non-Christian commentators. "This represents a
long-overdue critique of self-secularizing practices in
post-conciliar Catholicism. Tan shows how conceptions of the
autonomy of the secular have allowed Christian charitable works to
be culturally outflanked in the secular sphere. He argues that if
the ecclesiology of the church as chaplain to the capitalist order
has relegated the body of Christ to merely a subsection of a public
circumscribed by the state/society/market complex, then the body of
Christ ought to be repositioned to become a public in its own
right." --Tracey Rowland, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and
Family "Tan argues that the church must be embodied sacramentally
as a 'public' in its own right--not a chaplain to society, but a
wholesale alternative vision of society. Only within the context of
such an alternative social order can projects of justice become
meaningful Christian witness. This is an important and timely
contribution to a theology of culture, and a provocative
reassessment of the relation between word and deed in Christian
witness." --Benjamin Myers, Charles Sturt University, Sydney
Matthew John Paul Tan is a lecturer in Theology and Philosophy at
Campion College in Parramatta, Australia.
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