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Two streams run through the Western philosophical stream: one characterized by Being, beings, the unchanging, the static, and the unitary, and the other by Action, actions, the changing, the dynamic, and the diverse. The former might be represented by Parmenides, Plato, and much of what followed, the latter by Heraclitus, and by rather less of what followed. The book explores the "Action" stream as it wound its way through history, through Her...

“This Handbook offers a timely ‘snapshot’ of the fast-moving global debates on Basic Income. Embracing a range of ideological, ethical, historical and cross-national perspectives, it looks at the case for Basic Income through both a focused and a wide-angled lens. Rather than asserting hard and fast conclusions, it ends with the valuable message that context is all.”—Ruth Lister,  Loughborough University, UK “A must-read Handbook that provides...

A complementary title to the how-to manual, "Regenerating Local Churches", this volume focuses on the actual experience of local churches in a diverse area of London that includes traditional housing estates, urban developments and a glittering financial district, as they have responded to the challenges of mission in their particular locations.

This original book studies a wide variety of mediating institutions, both organizational and non-organizational, in workplaces, residential areas, and in wider society. Focusing upon institutions in the Thames Gateway and with case studies across south-east London, Europe and the USA, Meditating Institutions highlights the importance of understanding, creating and maintaining these organizations that facilitate relationships between religious ...

This fully updated and revised edition of Money for everyone includes new material to move the debate around Basic Income on from one of desirability to that of feasibility and implementation.

This fully updated and revised edition of Money for everyone includes new material to move the debate around Basic Income on from one of desirability to that of feasibility and implementation.

Religious and faith-based organisations constitute a large and important group of organisations. This is the first book to study systematically their characteristics and the distinctive challenges they pose to the people managing them. Malcolm Torry discusses how to define religious and faith-based organisations, how to study them, and the secular context in which they operate in Western Europe and the USA.

For anyone new to the subject of Citizen's Income, or who wants to introduce friends, colleagues or relatives to the idea, this valuable guide will be essential reading, offering a convincing case for a Citizen's Income and a much needed resource for all interested in the future of welfare in the UK.

Makes a valuable and original contribution to the debate on the UK's benefits system.

Workplace chaplaincy' is the term that covers the church's outreach to the economy which takes many forms and is supported by many local ecumenical partnerships. This title tells the stories of the movement's origins, starting with the first record of priests in a place of work - on board naval ships in the reign of Henry VIII.

This original book studies a wide variety of mediating institutions, both organizational and non-organizational, in workplaces, residential areas, and in wider society. Focusing upon institutions in the Thames Gateway and with case studies across south-east London, Europe and the USA, Meditating Institutions highlights the importance of understanding, creating and maintaining these organizations that facilitate relationships between religious ...

This two-volume work explores the management of religious and faith-based organizations. Each chapter offers a discussion of the earliest Christian organizations based on New Testament evidence, a study of managing faith-based organizations, and an exploration of secular management theory in relation to the management of faith-based organizations.

This two-volume work explores the management of religious and faith-based organizations. Each chapter offers a discussion of the earliest Christian organizations based on New Testament evidence, a study of managing faith-based organizations, and an exploration of secular management theory in relation to the management of faith-based organizations.

In this book Torry explains the models by which Citizen's Basic Income could work, and demonstrates the association between Citizen's Basic Income and Christianity. He calls for greater Church involvement in a wide-ranging debate on the subject.

This book is the first full-length treatment of the desirability and feasibility of implementing a citizen’s income (also known as a basic income). It tests for two different kinds of financial feasibility as well as for psychological, behavioral, administrative, and political viability, and then assesses how a citizen’s income might find its way through the policy process from proposal to implementation. Drawing on a wide variety of sources o...

This two-volume work explores the management of religious and faith-based organizations. Each chapter offers a discussion of the earliest Christian organizations based on New Testament evidence, a study of managing faith-based organizations, and an exploration of secular management theory in relation to the management of faith-based organizations.

This two-volume work explores the management of religious and faith-based organizations. Each chapter offers a discussion of the earliest Christian organizations based on New Testament evidence, a study of managing faith-based organizations, and an exploration of secular management theory in relation to the management of faith-based organizations.

The Church of England is its parishes. For Anglicans, Christianity is lived out in a defined geographical area in which the church's presence is usually signified by a building, a congregation and a priest. While on the one hand it is a mark of the essential hospitality of the gospel that no place falls outside the parish system, many people remain untouched by the faith proclaimed by their parish churches, and increased mobility means that ...