Titlebook: Religion and Social Justice; Shivesh C Thakur Book 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996 god.religion.s

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Social Justice and the Predicament of Religion,f justice have anything much to do with it. The main concern of the latter is righteousness, the highest virtue to be displayed by individuals, both as a mark of character and as a deter minant of social conduct. Justice, understood as righteousness, is, one might say, the whole of virtue, and not merely a particular virtue.

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Religion, Economic Development and Social Justice,t, I suppose, I do not have to do here is to make a case for the importance of economic development: that, it seems to me, has been done already by the large-scale conversion of world governments of all sorts to the capitalist model of free enterprise, economic development and a market economy.

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Book 1996beral vision of individual rights and social justice may be self-defeating. Humanity is best served if this liberal vision is counterbalanced by the completely contrary utopia enshrined in the biblical idea of the kingdom of God, and its equivalents in the other great religions of the world.

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,The Kingdom of God and the ‘Good Life’ on Earth,radition, is interpreted somewhat differently by various sects, churches and theologians. But I think that there is sufficient resemblance among the concepts for us to be able to specify a few general features, without being bogged down, I hope, in abstruse theological controversy or culture-specific historical detail.

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2947-0242 d by the completely contrary utopia enshrined in the biblical idea of the kingdom of God, and its equivalents in the other great religions of the world.978-0-230-37444-7Series ISSN 2947-0242 Series E-ISSN 2947-0250