Tag: subsidiarity
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Trust the locals
The Economist: Trust the locals WHENEVER Britain is diagnosed as ill-governed the same remedy is proposed: split up the mammoth bureaucracies in Whitehall, the wide street that runs from Parliament to Trafalgar Square and is still haunted by the ghosts of the men in bowler hats who built the welfare state from their offices there.…
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Theology and Economics: The Elemental Institution
Each baptized member participates in the priestly, prophetic, and kingly ministry of Jesus Christ. We have been called to creation stewardship, Kingdom service, and employment of gifts. Our primary focus and locus of work are as the diaspora, the Church in dispersion throughout the community. While we are all directly connected to Christ as individuals,…
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Theology and Economics: The Impact of Conservative Foundationalism
Liberal foundationalism became partners with modernist intellectuals in the demythologizing project. Conservative foundationalism headed in another direction. Conservative foundationalists became defenders of the traditional sacred and supernatural aspects of the Christian faith. However, like their liberal counterparts, they appropriated the tools of Enlightenment modernists to support their aims. I wrote that liberal foundationalism searches for…
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Theology and Economics: Subsidiarity
(Sorry for the two week intermission on this topic. In case you forgot where we were, here is the index. I intend to devote most of my efforts (with some interruptions) to wrapping this series up fairly soon.) I ended the last post by asking the following questions: But where do the morals and values…