Trust in Public Life
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- ISBN 9781913368753
- Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2023
- Publisher: Haus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Is the self-trust that leaders need to rule borne out of a lack of self-knowledge? How can the virtues of honesty, humility, compassion, and competence help to rebuild trust in our institutions? Is trust in each other, between groups that make up 'the people', a choice?
To trust is to risk, to become vulnerable, to place the centre of our universe somewhere other that ourselves. A loss of trust, particularly in public figures and institutions, is increasingly a feature of modern life. Together these essays provide deep reflections on the nature of trust in the context of public life, agreeing that it is endangered through real encounters, not in the abstract or by force. They offer guidance on how to make those encounters real, wether they be within oneself, between people, or between institutions and the people they serve.
Claire Gilbert is the founder director of the Westminster Abbey Institute. A current and former member of numerous ethics committees., Dr Gilbert has played an instrumental role in the medical research ethics field, and has led efforts to shift the Church's thinking on environmental issues.
Josie Rourke is a theatre and film director and formerly the artistic director of the Bush Theatre (2007-11) and the Donmar Warehouse (2012-19). In 2018 Rourke made her feature-film debut with the Academy Award- and BAFTA-nominated film Mary Queen of Scots.
Anthony Ball is canon rector at Westminster Abbey and an assistant bishop on the Anglican diocese of Egypt. As a former member of the Diplomatic Service, he has been posted overseas in the Middle East and Spain, during which time he was ordained as a priest. He subsequently had roles in Lambeth Palace, school chaplaincy, and parish ministry.
James Hawkey is canon theologian of Westminster Abbey, a chaplain to King Charles III, and chair of the Westminster Abbey Institute. Canon Hawkey is also bye-fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and holds visiting professorships in theology at King's College, London, and the Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome.
Anna Rowlands is St Hilda professor of Catholic social thought and practice in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham.
