「我們需要的是另類思考,需要有人提供此與彼之外的第三條出路(the third way)。」本書收錄了梁家麟在二○○六年為《時代論壇》「冷暖人間」專欄所寫的五十二篇文章,所討論的是香港教會的政教關係和社會參與問題,並為她所經受的教內教外攻擊作答辯。所有關涉到時人時事的評論,都是為解釋主題申論而枚舉的例子。冷戰時代業已結束多年,我們必須結束兩陣對圓、黑白兩極化的思維模式,拒絕在絕對主義與相對主義之間二擇其一。
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「社會良心」抑「搞事份子」:香港基督教工業委員會歷史之研究 SICIAL CONSCIENCE OR TROUBLEMAKER? A History of Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee
This book makes an urgent call for a reorientation of Christian ethics in China.
Since the "reform and opening" policy was adopted in China in 1979, the country has been enjoying an improved standard of living and increasing freedom. However, the Chinese people are also experiencing many serious social problems, including moral decline. Unfortunately, the ethic adopted by many Chinese Christians is individually focused and otherworldly, preventing them from responding to social problems effectively. Thus Lin tries to trace the underlying factors, and propose a socially focused and this-worldly Christian ethics drawing on Christian virtue ethics, Confucianism, Chinese Marxism, as well as the ethical thought of the first-generation Chinese Protestant thinkers.