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The Jubilee Centre – Christianity and the Social Contract
My article on Christianity and the Social Contract is now available on the Jubilee Centre website. .
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The Social Contract and the Sinai Covenant – an address for the Chapel of Hertford College, Oxford
This talk was prepared as a video address for the Chapel of Hertford College, Oxford. My sincere thanks go to Mia Smith for her kind invitation. A transcript can be found below. It is hard to escape the language and the implications of the social contract today. A steady stream of newspaper articles argue
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The basis of a healthy society: the social contract, promise-keeping and the Golden Rule
To adapt a popular meme from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, “One does not simply… rewrite the social contract”. It isn’t something we can change at will. It doesn’t drop from the sky fully formed. And, as we know, it wasn’t simply “written” in the first place. The codified aspects of the social contract—the
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Christianity and the social contract: preliminary reflections
The paper below was prepared for the Jubilee Centre taskforce on the role of the state in the post COVID-19 world. Its intention is to provide a brief overview of classic social contract theory and identify some ways in which the social contract paradigm relates to Christian theology. Enjoy! Christianity and the social contract “Contemporary
