A Christian perspective on social theology and world development

[...]social teaching in this period is no longer presented primarily as a product of natural law and philosophical reflection that might be challenged like any other human construct. [...]in Laborem Exercens he personalises the international economic order in the concept of the `indirect employer�...

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Published in:The Month (London. 1882) 1999-05, Vol.32 (5), p.176-183
Main Author: Linden, Ian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Christian Islamic relations
Christianity
Christians
God
International relations
Islam
Muslims
Natural law
Religion
Society
Sociology
Traditions
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Summary:[...]social teaching in this period is no longer presented primarily as a product of natural law and philosophical reflection that might be challenged like any other human construct. [...]in Laborem Exercens he personalises the international economic order in the concept of the `indirect employer', all the forces that restrict the capacity of an employer to pay a just wage and act justly, in order to make the concept of structural sin more comprehensible. [...]in one of the Protestant traditions, economics is an order of creation, a divinely ordained sphere of human activity in which the principal virtue is the careful marshalling and distribution of scarce resources, and for which the term 'efficiency' therefore has moral connotations. In a sense this issue is being played out today in the conflict between the approaches of the developing world and the industrialised world to global warming. [...]there is no justification for any rigid division of `right relationships' between justice and efficiency, the one being a moral domain, the other an amoral domain of economics.
ISSN:0027-0172