Equality: A New Perspective: The Glory of God is Man Fully Alive

by Jane Campbell

The Glory of God is man fully alive. In the last century, Western culture has seen an enormous shift in the attitude of mankind towards his fellow man. The rise of feminism, racial tension, unbalanced wealth and the breakneck progress of science all force us to re-evaluate the meaning of equality in our age. How do we reconcile the seemingly discordant concepts of diversity and equality? In this passionate study, Jane Campbell considers the Christian position, in particular that of the Catholic Church, on the notion of equality between human beings. Focusing on scripture and the writings of various Church leaders throughout the ages, she demonstrates the chasm that has opened between the secular understanding of equality and that of the Christian Church. This thought-provoking examination asks us to rediscover the original concept of equality - that of balance as opposed to sameness - so we might understand the true ramifications of our actions as we head down a perilous ethical path in the twenty-first century.

88 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 2008

About the author

Jane Campbell was born in Hoylake (Wirral) in 1942. In 1948 her family moved to Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and four years later Jane went to boarding school in Cape Town. In 1959 she spent 18 months at Cape Town University before reading English at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. After marrying a fellow undergraduate, she moved to Bermuda. In 1980 she returned to Oxford where she took a post-graduate degree in Applied Social Science and trained at the Institute of Group Analysis. She has had a Private Practice in Oxford since then and for 20 years worked as a co-director of a part-time postgraduate training leading to an MSc Group Psychotherapy (OBU). In 2017, she sent a short story, “Cat-Brushing,” to the London Review of Books, who published it. She has now written a collection of short stories about the experiences of older women which will be published by riverrun / Quercus in the UK in July 2022. Grove Atlantic will publish the US edition in August 2022. She is now living in Bermuda again for much of the year where her four children live.