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Communities of Restoration: Ecclesial Ethics and Restorative Justice (T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics) by Thomas Noakes-Duncan, Brian Brock, Susan F. Parsons is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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By bringing together the insights of ecclesial ethics, an approach that emphasizes the distinctive nature of the church as the community that forms its mind and character after its reading of Scripture, with the theory and practice of restorative justice, a way of conceiving justice-making that emerged from the Mennonite-Anabaptist tradition, this book shows why a theological account of the theory and practice of restorative justice is fruitful for articulating and clarifying the witness of the church, especially when faced with conflict or wrongdoing. This can help extend the church's imagination as to how it might better become God's community of restoration as it reflects on the ways in which the justice of God is taking shape in its own community. “How does an ecclesial context shape the theological apprehension and praxis of justice?” This question orientates the book. In particular, it asks how, in view of its members having been admitted into God's restoring justice in Christ, the church might embody in the world this same justice of restoring right relationships. While Christian reflection on the nature of justice has tended to favour a judicial and retributive conception o

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Author

Thomas Noakes-Duncan, Brian Brock, Susan F. Parsons

Publisher

Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780567671547

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Religion, Philosophy