Author: CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Moral Welfare Council
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Languages : en
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Author: Moorhouse F. X. Millar
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Church of England. Moral Welfare Council
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Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Antony Flew
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351490087
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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"In Social Life and Moral Judgment, author and philosopher Antony Flew examines the social problems induced by the mature welfare state. Welfare states make ever-increasing financial demands on their citizenry, yet the evidence clearly supports that such demands are not sustainable. In this superlative collection of thematic essays, Flew investigates and explains why this is so, and calls for a return to individual responsibility.The first essay establishes the philosophical basis for his argument. ""Is Human Sociobiology Possible?"" answers its titular question in the negative, asserting that we are all members of a peculiar type of creature that can, and therefore must, be responsible for whatever choices between various courses of action or inaction that are open to us as individuals. In other essays, Flew shows how state welfare systems inevitably corrupt and demoralize their citizens by encouraging ever-more people to apply for welfare entitlements and reducing the incentives to avoid or escape the conditions warranting those entitlements. He investigates the origins of this new kind of welfare entitlement, and shows how very different what politicians and public sector employees produce is from what these people claim to be producing.Flew shows that the drive for ""social"" justice appears to require that the justly acquired income and wealth of all citizens should be progressively taxed away or supplemented by the state so that the eventual result is more, though never perfect, equality. This objective, he asserts, must be radically distinguished from old-fashioned, without prefix or suffix, justice. It was this type of justice Adam Smith referred to when he famously said that it is a virtue ""of which the observance is not left to the freedom of our wills"" but ""which may be extorted by force."" Flew question the aims of those who would discredit wealth creators and wealth-creating investment, showing that these are the same people who prom"

Author: Eve KENNEDY
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Author: John A. Ryan
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528443586
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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John A. Ryan was said to look less than he was. Scruffy, cranky and always half away in whichever book he was reading at the time. He was born the first of eleven children and educated sporadically in a one room schoolhouse. After working on the family farm to keep his mother and younger siblings afloat, at the earliest opportunity John chose the priesthood as his occupation. After graduate study Ryan began to lobby for social change. Concerns that still rattle around our halls of assembly and power. He wanted a living wage, a shorter work week and protection for women and children enforced by the law. Father Ryan was instrumental in his contribution to the cause of installing a minimum wage across several states, laying the groundwork for millions to benefit in the future. The basis of Ryan's theory was a belief in the god given rights of every person which according to his rationale imposed on the state, the moral responsibility to take redistributive action to relieve suffering. His book is in many respects as radical today as it was in his heyday. Whilst not all readers will share the Catholic faith, his lateral reasoning is impeccable and his conclusions are socially compassionate. He argues that our economic reasoning has become artificially detached from our ethics, and that an urgent reassessment is needed. Whether one comes to agree or not, 'The State and the Church' provokes each of us to reassess the relationship between pragmatic reasoning and moral thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Lew Daly
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262262509
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Can religion cure poverty? The first book to explore the ideas about God and government behind the faith-based initiative. When the Bush administration's faith-based initiative was introduced in 2001 as the next stage of the "war on poverty," it provoked a flurry of protest for violating the church-state divide. Most critics didn't ask whether it could work. God and the Welfare State is the first book to trace the ideas behind George W. Bush's faith-based initiative from their roots in Catholic natural law theory and Dutch Calvinism to an American think tank, the Center for Public Justice. Comparing Bush's plan with the ways the same ideas have played out in Christian Democratic welfare policies in Europe, the author is skeptical that it will be an effective new way to fight poverty. But he takes the animating ideas very seriously, as they go to the heart of the relationship among religion, government, and social welfare. In the end Daly argues that these ideas—which are now entrenched in federal and state politics—are a truly radical departure from American traditions of governance. Although Bush's initiative roughly overlaps with more conventional conservative efforts to strengthen private power in economic life, it promises an unprecedented shift in the balance of power between secular and religious approaches to social problems and suggests a broader template for "faith-based governance," in which the state would have a much more limited role in social policy.

Author: Kees van Kersbergen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139479202
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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This book radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems. The interplay of societal cleavage structures and electoral rules produced the different political class coalitions sustaining the three welfare regimes of the Western world. In countries with proportional electoral systems the absence or presence of state–church conflicts decided whether class remained the dominant source of coalition building or whether a political logic not exclusively based on socio-economic interests (e.g. religion) was introduced into politics, particularly social policy. The political class-coalitions in countries with majoritarian systems, on the other hand, allowed only for the residual-liberal welfare state to emerge, as in the US or the UK. This book also reconsiders the role of Protestantism. Reformed Protestantism substantially delayed and restricted modern social policy. The Lutheran state churches positively contributed to the introduction of social protection programs.

Author: Derek Davis
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195326245
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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21 essays present a scholarly look at the intricacies and past and current debates that frame the American system of church and state, within 5 main areas: history, politics, sociology theology/philosophy and law.

Author: David Macarov
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1452246882
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Poverty, unemployment, limited access to health care: the litany of ills plaguing contemporary society seems endless, reflective of the pragmatic and philosophical battles waged to overcome what some perceive as insurmountable obstacles. What role has the state played in mitigating the effects of these harsh realities? Offering a comprehensive survey of past and present programs, Social Welfare considers the substance and results of government intervention. Shaped by the works of such distinguished figures as Martin Luther, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin, this incisive text charts the progression of social welfare policy from inception to its current status. David Macarov links present policy to the convergence of five interacting motivations: mutual aid, religion, politics, economics, and ideology. In identifying these elements, Macarov assays the significance of each in determining the nature of social welfare and its future. Featuring chapter summaries and exercises, this intriguing introduction to social welfare policy and practice will involve and inform students of social work, political science, and sociology. "David Macarov has written a handy introductory social policy text for undergraduate that transcends the descriptive accounts of the social services that pervade the literature. Unlike many other introductory texts, Macarov does not seek to list the major social services and describe their functioning but focuses instead on the role of ideas and wider social forces in social welfare. The book is easy to read and thoroughly supported with recommendations for additional reading. It is a useful addition to the literature." --Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare