Up With Authority

Name: Up With Authority
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by Victor Lee Austin

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Authority is something we experience every day, but is it necessary? Most people think it is not, that we have authority only when there is some defect in us that authority is needed to fill in. While it is true that authority can be used to remedy human inadequacies, it has a higher and nobler function: to enable us to do more complex activities, to understand more of the world we live in and to transmit that understanding, to flourish in political communities, and ultimately to enjoy God. This book shows the human importance of authority.?? ???'Our postmodern era views authority as something to be grimly endured -- or simply overthrown. Victor Austin writes against this antinomian sensibility. His clear, accessible and convincing analysis shows how moral, political, and religious authority brings order to society and beauty to the soul.'
R. R. Reno, Department of Theology, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA.
-Publisher.

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A very topical contribution to the question of whether authority is needed and what it is good for.

PRODUCT DETAIL

Catalogue Code 305187
Product Code 9780567020512
ISBN 0567020517
EAN 9780567020512
Pages 184
Department Academic
Category Christian Worldview
Sub-Category Social Issues
Publisher Bloomsbury Continuum Publishing Group
Publication Date Sep 2010
Dimensions 228 x 152 x 12mm
Weight 0.254kg

Victor Lee Austin

The Reverend Victor Lee Austin, (Ph.D., Fordham University) is Theologian-in-residence at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York City. He is the author of scholarly articles in political theology, ecclesiology, and social ethics, as well as a book of theological meditations on everyday life, A Priests Journal; Up with Authority: Why We Need Authority to Flourish as Human Beings and Christian Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed.

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