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Article: Welfare After the Welfare State: Reimaging Social Christianity.
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- April 1, 1998
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Trevor Hogan, Welfare After the Welfare State, Reimaging Social Christianity, Occasional Paper, Brotherhood of St Laurence, 1997.
As Trevor Hogan puts it in this the sixteenth Sambell Memorial Oration, the welfare state no longer `meets the needs of the poor nor promotes social equality'. Neither does it call forth public participation in furthering the common weal. More fundamentally, and ominously, we appear to `have lost a common normative vocabulary for securing and sustaining such a project'.
In the breach, Hogan suggests various relatively immediate projects, experiments in new principles for welfare, as well as the more encompassing need to develop ...