Christopher D. Marshall

Compassionate Justice (eBook, ePUB)

An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Two parables that have become firmly lodged in popular consciousness and affection are the parable of the Good Samaritan and the parable of the Prodigal Son. These simple but subversive tales have had a significant impact historically on shaping the spiritual, aesthetic, moral, and legal traditions of Western civilization, and their capacity to inform debate on a wide range of moral and social issues remains as potent today as ever. Noting that both stories deal with episodes of serious interpersonal offending, and both recount restorative responses on the part of the leading characters, Compassionate Justice draws on the insights of restorative justice theory, legal philosophy, and social psychology to offer a fresh reading of these two great parables. It also provides a compelling analysis of how the priorities commended by the parables are pertinent to the criminal justice system today. The parables teach that the conscientious cultivation of compassion is essential to achieving true justice. Restorative justice strategies, this book argues, provide a promising and practical means of attaining to this goal of reconciling justice with compassion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781621894407
• Artikelnr.: 55267993

Autorenporträt

Professor Chris Marshall is currently holder of the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice in the School of Government, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to taking up this post in 2014, he was the St John's Professor of Christian Theology and Head of the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University. Before that he taught New Testament for 19 years at Laidlaw College in Auckland, during which time he wrote Kingdom Come for use by his students.

In addition to Kingdom Come (1990), Marshall is author of Faith As A Theme In Mark's Gospel (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision For Justice, Crime, and Punishment (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001), Crowned With Glory And Honor: Human Rights In The Biblical Tradition (Pandora Press, 2001), Little Book Of Biblical Justice (Good Books, 2005) and Compassionate Justice: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice (Cascade: Wipf & Stock, 2012).