Skip to content

Social Ethics in the Making Interpreting an American Tradition

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 1444337300

ISBN-13: 9781444337303

Edition: 2011

Authors: Gary Dorrien

Shipping box This item qualifies for FREE shipping.
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009In the early 1880s, proponents of what came to be called "the social gospel" founded what is now known as social ethics. This ambitious and magisterial book describes the tradition of social ethics: one that began with the distinctly modern idea that Christianity has a social-ethical mission to transform the structures of society in the direction of social justice. Charts the story of social ethics - the idea that Christianity has a social-ethical mission to transform society - from its roots in the nineteenth century through to the present day Discusses and analyzes how different traditions of social ethics evolved in the realms of the academy,…    
Customers also bought

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 11/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 752
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.72" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English

Plates
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Inventing Social Ethics
Becoming Francis Greenwood Peabody
Philosophies of Moral Philosophy
Beyond Moral Philosophy: Social Ethics
The Social Question, William Jewett Tucker, and Liberal Theology
Jesus and the Social Question
Up from Slavery: The Race Problem in the Social Question
Retreating to the Seminaries
Getting Peabody Right
Christian Sociology
The Social Gospel in the Classroom and Public Square
The Social Gospel
Good Theology and the Social Good
The Social Gospel Difference and the Challenge of Darwinism
Manifest Destiny and the Crucible of Race
The Great War and the Social Gospel
The Socialist Kingdom of God
Asking the Social Question
The Kingdom as Political Theology
German America and the Wider Kingdom
The Social Crisis and the Social Gospel
The Social Gospel Ascending
Christianizing the American Order
The Great War and the Social Gospel
Social Christianity and Radical Reconstruction
Ward, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Soviet Spirit
Lift Every Voice
Becoming
Mainstreaming the Black Social Gospel
Fostering Democratic Citizenship
Democracy, Social Ethics, and Pragmatism
Social Doctrine in Action
Mainstreaming the Catholic Social Gospel
Christian Realism
Becoming Reinhold Niebuhr
Rejecting Social Gospel Idealism
H. Richard Niebuhr, Liberal Religion, and Radical Monotheism
Christian Realism as Socialist Faith
Niebuhrian Realism, World War II, and the Cold War
The Niebuhrian Method and Legacy
Making Sense of Niebuhrian Realism
A New Liberal Consensus?
Social Christianity as Public Theology
Socializing Personalist Theory
Moral Theory, Culture, and Christian Social Ethics
Personalism Against the Current
James Luther Adams and Unitarian Christianity
Rethinking Religious Freedom and Pluralism
The American Idea and the Catholic Presence
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
Liberationist Disruptions
Martin Luther King Jr and the Beloved Community
James H. Cone and Black Liberation Theology
Beyond Patriarchal Religion: Mary Daly and the Rebirth of Feminism
Christian Feminist Liberation Ethics
Disputing and Expanding the Tradition
Carl F. H. Henry and the New Evangelicalism
John Howard Yoder and the Politics of Jesus
Thinking Christian Pacifism Through
Ideological Americanism: The Neoconservative Reaction
Michael Novak and Democratic Capitalism
Interrogating Liberation Theology and the Catholic Bishops
Progressive Evangelicalism
Dealing with Modernity and Postmodernity
Moral Theology and the Curran Controversy
Naturalistic Theocentrism
Elements for a Social Ethic
Prophetic Public Criticism
Womanist Ethics
Taking Postmodernity Seriously
Economy, Sexuality, Ecology, Difference
Capitalist Apologetics as Public Theology
Right Ordering and Sexual Difference
Sources, Norms, and Moral Reasoning
Sexual Justice
Debating Economic Democracy
Ecology as Political Economics and Theology
Eco-Justice for the Sake of Everything
Toward an Ethic of Risk and Conflict
Womanism and the Cultural Production of Evil
Latina Feminisms
Human Rights and Catholic Social Ethics
Borders of Possibility: The Necessity of "Discredited" Social Gospel Ideas
Social Ethics and Racial Justice
Foreign Policy Realism and American Empire
Economic Democracy: The Future of a Discredited Vision
Index