Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I INTRODUCTIONS
- II MORAL OBLIGATION AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF
- III RELIGION AND SOME CONTEMPORARY MORAL CONTROVERSIES
- 8 Economic Justice
- 9 Bioethical Questions
- 10 Abortion
- 11 Homosexual Sex
- IV THE INTERACTION BETWEEN RELIGION AND THE SECULAR LAW
- V RESPONDING TO RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
- VI RELIGIOUSLY GROUNDED MORAL DECISION-MAKING IN PROFESSIONAL LIFE
- Copyright Permission Acknowledgments
- Authors of Works Reprinted
- Scriptural Passages
- Index
8 - Economic Justice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I INTRODUCTIONS
- II MORAL OBLIGATION AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF
- III RELIGION AND SOME CONTEMPORARY MORAL CONTROVERSIES
- 8 Economic Justice
- 9 Bioethical Questions
- 10 Abortion
- 11 Homosexual Sex
- IV THE INTERACTION BETWEEN RELIGION AND THE SECULAR LAW
- V RESPONDING TO RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
- VI RELIGIOUSLY GROUNDED MORAL DECISION-MAKING IN PROFESSIONAL LIFE
- Copyright Permission Acknowledgments
- Authors of Works Reprinted
- Scriptural Passages
- Index
Summary
They will build houses and live in them,
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
They will not build for others to live in,
or plant for others to eat,
for the days of my people
will be like the days of a tree,
And my chosen ones will themselves use
what they have made.
They shall not toil in vain.
Isaiah 65:21–23How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
and poverty will come upon you like a
vagabond,
and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 6:9–11One Scripture, two very different responses to the existence of serious deprivation in society. In the initial set of readings in this chapter, John Dominic Crossan, a Roman Catholic theologian; Michael Lerner, now a rabbi; J. Philip Wogaman, a Methodist minister; the U.S. Catholic bishops in a 1986 pastoral letter; and Shane Claiborne, an evangelical former seminarian, all ground in Scripture a strongly egalitarian approach to the question of distributive justice. As you read these excerpts and the significantly differing ones that follow them, consider these questions:
(a) To what extent are you inclined to assign the worldview manifested in the scriptural passages invoked to the domain of “politics,” where we are all presumably free to choose up sides as we think best, rather than to “religion,” where (if one takes Scripture seriously) the implications of its language presumably have more of a “bite”?
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- Religion in Legal Thought and Practice , pp. 219 - 255Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010