What jesus says to public administration

Abstract

This essay argues that the teachings and ethos of Jesus are needed in public administration to address a potentially fatal weakness in modern industrial republics. The latter are increasingly prone to domestic tyranny and international imperialism, because the values that once constrained them, and which once were thought to be self-evident, have been traced to Christian doctrines discredited by science. The first half of the essay chronicles the failure of the West either to live well without these values, or to find an alternative foundation for them. The second half of the essay shows that this dilemma can be overcome by differentiating the teachings of Jesus from the doctrines of Christianity

Citation

Lance, d.-S. (2003), "What jesus says to public administration", International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 90-118. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-06-01-2003-B001