Must Western societies choose between social chaos or social control?Western society is in the process of undergoing profound changes in moral ethos and in the structureof relationships. Christianity has been pushed out of the public forum and the Church is having to grapple with challenges to its authority-patterns posed by individualism, reductionism, consumerism, and moral relativism.Timothy Bradshaw seeks to address the questionof authority in terms of the poles of freedom andform. The tendency of each pole is to ...
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Must Western societies choose between social chaos or social control?Western society is in the process of undergoing profound changes in moral ethos and in the structureof relationships. Christianity has been pushed out of the public forum and the Church is having to grapple with challenges to its authority-patterns posed by individualism, reductionism, consumerism, and moral relativism.Timothy Bradshaw seeks to address the questionof authority in terms of the poles of freedom andform. The tendency of each pole is to dominate.When 'freedom' dominates we have chaos butwhen 'form' dominates we have control (as exemplifiedin Islamic states). Thus the choice facing theWest looks like one between chaos and control.Bradshaw argues that this is a false choice. He suggeststhat Christ is the form for human freedom and diversity, and that the Church has sufficient apostolic guides and practices to chart its way ahead in faith. The book maintains that Western, liberal, capitalist democracy needs to recover a Christian ethical basis to avoid the dangers of both chaos and of control. The author writes that, 'The experiment of the first attempt at a wholly secular civilization by the West is in trouble, and we need to think very hard indeed whether exiling God wasin fact cutting off the moral oxygen necessary for a living body politic. The fruits of western liberaldemocracy, and a humane free market economic order, have depended upon the gospel-tree from which they grew, and cut off that tree may well wither. In other words, the health of the Church is vital to that of society and state.'
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