Book Chapter

Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order

Bretherton, Luke

2011

Overview

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Class, Power, and Inequality Class and Political Economy Worship as a Mode of Production, Distribution, and Consumption Class, Corporatism, and Covenant Classlessness and the Peace of the Earthly City References

• Publisher: Wiley‐Blackwell
• Subject: assessment of class, ways of understanding ‐ nature of modern earthly peace, and how to seek its welfare / class and political economy ‐ contrast between caste and class, distinctive features of class, as a modern way of understanding human hierarchy and social order / class, corporatism and covenant ‐ Milbank and Cavanaugh's critique of liberation theology and Marxism, worship shaping a Christian conception of peace / class, power and inequality, two distinctive features to class ‐ as a modern way of thinking, stratification and hierarchy among humans / getting beyond class, and how to interrupt it ‐ mitigating its deleterious impact, revealing it for what it is – a contingent / intrinsic in theological conception of Christ's peace ‐ notion of a time and a place beyond human conflict / liturgical sign of peace ‐ addressing the church and the world / modern accounts of class ‐ incorporating three elements, different emphasis on each / origins of sharing peace ‐ lying with Paul's admonition to give one another a holy kiss / sharing peace, class, hierarchy and Christian social order ‐ scripture, enjoining us to “Greet one another with a holy kiss”
• ISBN: 9781444331349, 1444331345