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Williams, Rowan, 1950-

Faith in the public square / Rowan Williams. - London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012. - vi, 344 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE SECULARISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- 1.Has secularism failed? -- 2.Secularism, faith and freedom -- 3.Convictions, loyalties and the secular state -- 4.Law, power and peace -- 5.Europe, faith and culture -- 6.Religion, diversity and tolerance -- 7.The spiritual and the religious: is the territory changing? -- pt. TWO LIVING WITHIN LIMITS: LIBERALISM, PLURALISM AND LAW -- 8.Multiculturalism - friend or foe? -- 9.Faith and Enlightenment -- 10.Pluralism - public and religious -- 11.Religious hatred and religious offence -- 12.Do human rights exist? -- 13.Reconnecting human rights and religious faith -- pt. THREE LIVING WITH LIMITS: THE ENVIRONMENT -- 14.Changing the myths we live by -- 15.Renewing the face of the earth: human responsibility and the environment -- 16.Climate crisis: fashioning a Christian response -- pt. FOUR HOUSEKEEPING: THE ECONOMIC CHALLENGE -- 17.Ethics, economics and global justice -- Contents note continued: 18.Theology and economics: two different worlds -- pt. FIVE JUSTICE IN COMMUNITY -- 19.Sustainable communities -- 20.The gifts reserved for age: perceptions of the elderly -- 21.Reforming punishment -- 22.Big society - small world? -- pt. SIX RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND CIVIL AGREEMENT -- 23.Analysing atheism: unbelief and the world of faiths -- 24.Religious diversity and social unity -- 25.Faith communities in a civil society -- pt. SEVEN REDISCOVERING RELIGION -- 26.Religious lives.

This book contains critical contemporary issues by Rowan Williams, in his final book as Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation. His views are consistent and orthodox and yet he has been consistently misunderstood - especially in relation to his views on contemporary society, public morality and the common good. In this, the final published work of his Archepiscopate, Dr Williams has assembled a series of chapters on matters of immediate public concern and the relationship of Christianity to these issues.

ISBN: 9781408187586 (hbk.) 1408187582 (hbk.)

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB279747 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016147728 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Church and social problems--Anglican Communion.
Church and social problems--Great Britain.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Social conditions.

LC Class. No.: HN37.A6 / W565 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 261.8