Taming the beast : can we bridle the culture of corruption?
Author
Osburn Jr, Robert
Additional Author(s)
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Publisher
Minnesota: Wilberforce Press, 2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781530699773
Series
Subject(s)
CORRUPTION-RELIGIOUS ASPECTS-CHRISTIANITY
THEOLOGY, DOCTRINAL
Notes
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Abstract
A highly original book that combines humor, imaginative narratives, and fresh, newly-mined explorations of biblical teaching, Taming the Beast: Can We Bridle the Culture of Corruption? answers 12 questions that every social activist, anti-corruption campaigner, religious leader, businessman, and bureaucrat needs to know about conquering one of the great menaces of our time: the culture of corruption. The carefully–crafted questions yield to answers that combine deep reflection on the human condition with extensive biblical teaching about corruption, bribery, and integrity. The results point to four interlocking forces that sustain the current epidemic of corruption: premodern animism, modern institutions, postmodern suspicion, and primordial sin. The book proposes that the only enduring solution is found in Kingdom-centered faith in Jesus Christ. Readers are invited to dialogue with the conclusion in a spirit of global friendship welded together by shared disdain for the seemingly-unstoppable tide of corruption. Written with a global audience in mind, the book is designed to spark new conversations about corruption, whether in study groups, university classrooms, in public fora, in the media, business boardrooms and the offices of government ministers. Each of the 12 chapters end with chapter summaries and short study guides. A multi-page appendix offers the latest ideas for taming and tackling corruption, and an invitation to join in an ongoing discussion of best practices for stamping out corruption, while also ensuring the humanity of everyone---offenders and the offended---who are caught in the web of corruption and evil.
