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Bede Jarrett, Sir Ernest Barker and the
Political Significance of the Dominican Order
Author(s) -
O'Brien Nick
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2010.01369.x
Subject(s) - politics , pluralism (philosophy) , constitution , debt , socialism , order (exchange) , sociology , social order , religious studies , law , environmental ethics , social science , political science , epistemology , philosophy , economics , communism , finance
This article seeks to reappraise the scholarly work of Bede Jarrett OP by drawing out his debt to Sir Ernest Barker. A shared interest in medieval political and social institutions, and in the constitution of the Dominican Order as a model of voluntary association, infused Jarrett's thinking with the tenets of English political pluralism and enabled him to produce a body of work that paid as much attention to concrete political form as to social ethics. As such his work establishes links with nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Christian Socialism, as well as echoing certain current preoccupations within political theology.