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Offender Reintegration: Insights from the Teaching of Jesus

Offender Reintegration: Insights from the Teaching of Jesus. Chris Marshall Victoria University. The Task of Public Theology. The contribution theological learning can make to discussion of public issues Distinctive insights, with universal relevan c e.

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Offender Reintegration: Insights from the Teaching of Jesus

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  1. Offender Reintegration: Insights from the Teaching of Jesus Chris Marshall Victoria University

  2. The Task of Public Theology • The contribution theological learning can make to discussion of public issues • Distinctive insights, with universal relevance

  3. Problematic strategies of communication: • Using exactly same categories as everybody else • Using exclusively religious categories • Both approaches ultimately render theological insight irrelevant

  4. Criteria of Distinctiveness: • Commonly intelligible, but uncomfortably demanding • Christologically-conditioned • Good news, not just bad new • Must practice what we preach

  5. Parables as a Resource for Public Theology

  6. Insights from Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) • Punishment is a limited device, that achieves limited outcomes

  7. 2. We need to avoid or minimise excessive social labelling • “An indelible ontological attribute” • Our identity is conferred by others • “Deviance labelling” • A theological objection • A psychological objection

  8. 3. Need to develop strategies for conferring honour as reintegrative mechanism • Punishment as pain and shame • Best robe, ring, and sandals • Offending as rooted in shame • Punishment exacerbates problem • Innovative alternatives??

  9. 4. Need to offer belonging in place of exclusion • Symbols of honour • Public celebration • Terms of belonging • Today’s stark contrast

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