As she settled into No. 10
this theme of social reform became ever more prominent with heady discussions in the media of the Tories renaming themselves the «Workers Party» and of them having «parked their tanks on Jeremy Corbyn's lawn».
Not exact matches
(Other issues were also at stake, especially a shift in eschatology in which premillennialism tended to erode the commitment to
social reform and probably various sorts
of social class sortings out, but the
themes sketched above better represent the fundamentalist self - consciousness.)
While the example
of Jesus and the
theme of loving one's neighbor are perhaps the best motivation for
social reform, I don't see clear biblical mandates calling for such changes specifically.
However, one
theme the recurring
reforms of Christian worship have in common is that none
of these alternative
social forms for the worship
of God can be normative
social forms.
Dr Rutherford will explore the
themes of cooperation and altruism in his event «Community Resilience under Public Service
Reform» as part
of the ESRC's Festival
of Social Science on the 6th November in Edinburgh.