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ARE FREEDOM AND EQUALITY NATURAL ENEMIES? A CHRISTIAN‐THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Author(s) -
VORSTER NICO
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2010.00576.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , sociology , economic justice , section (typography) , balance (ability) , natural (archaeology) , religious freedom , epistemology , environmental ethics , law and economics , domain (mathematical analysis) , christian ethics , law , political science , economic freedom , philosophy , computer science , mathematics , psychology , mathematical analysis , archaeology , neuroscience , history , operating system , artificial intelligence
It is often difficult to balance the conflicting interests of freedom and equality in the public domain. This article attempts to provide a Christian perspective on freedom and equality that might help to reconcile some of the conflicts between freedom and equality that are likely to arise. The first section discusses the significance of religious ethics for social justice, the second section attempts to provide a conceptual framework for freedom and equality from a theological perspective. The third section offers a societal framework within which conflicts between freedom and equality can be resolved. The conclusion arrived at is that freedom and equality are compatible values as long as they are used in a conceptually correct manner which upholds the inherent principles governing societal processes.