Recent styles of political debate in western democracies have
highlighted questions about how we exercise personal freedom and who is
responsible for how we live. At an individual level, we have seen lives
destroyed by hate campaigns while a blame culture encourages us to
scapegoat others for our misfortunes.
Freedom and responsibility are themes that flow through scripture as
well as public life and they are finely balanced. In our changing world,
what do business, church and community leaders need to understand and
embody? Peter Shaw draws on writers and thinkers from different eras in
order to pose questions about what it means to act responsibly in a wide
range of personal and public contexts. Chapters include:
- Freedom that liberates
- Responsibility that delivers
- Freedom from and freedom to
- Responsibility as a joy and not a burden
- Freedom and responsibility in the workplace
- Freedom and responsibility as a citizen
- Freedom and responsibility in family and friendships
- Finding our equilibrium going forward