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Record Nr.

UNISA996205898203316

Autore

Dorrien Gary J

Titolo

Social ethics in the making [[electronic resource] ] : interpreting an American tradition / / Gary Dorrien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2009

ISBN

1-282-11599-5

9786612115998

1-4443-0576-X

1-4443-0577-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (746 p.)

Disciplina

261.80973

Soggetti

Christian sociology - United States

Social gospel - United States

Social ethics - United States

Christian ethics - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Inventing Social Ethics; Chapter 2: The Social Gospel; Chapter 3: Lift Every Voice; Chapter 4: Christian Realism; Chapter 5: Social Christianity as Public Theology; Chapter 6: Liberationist Disruptions; Chapter 7: Disputing and Expanding the Tradition; Chapter 8: Dealing with Modernity and Postmodernity; Chapter 9: Economy, Sexuality, Ecology, Difference; Chapter 10: Borders of Possibility: The Necessity of "Discredited" Social Gospel Ideas; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 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 dayDiscusses and analyzes how different tr