02919nam 22004933 450 991014878430332120250731080249.00-8254-8855-9(CKB)3710000000922908(BIP)056718946(VLeBooks)9780825488559(MiAaPQ)EBC32228967(Au-PeEL)EBL32228967(Exl-AI)993710000000922908(Exl-AI)32228967(OCoLC)968117031(EXLCZ)99371000000092290820250731d2012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAwaiting the City Poverty, Ecology, and Morality in Today's Political Economy1st ed.GRAND RAPIDS :Kregel Publications,2012.©2012.1 online resource (240 p.) Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Western Civilization & the American Dream -- Chapter 2: Moral Complexities in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 3: The Morality of Market Economics -- Chapter 4: Social Justice & Distribution—Wealth, Poverty, & Human Need -- Chapter 5: The Spirit of Competitive Destruction: Creation, Ecology, & the Destiny of Man -- Chapter 6: Tending the Garden—Changing the World, or Rational Compassion? -- Chapter 7: Fickle Prophets, Biblical Realism, & Rational Compassion -- Epilogue: Obama, Bull Moose, and the White Queen -- Appendix AGenerated by AI.People of faith have always been on search for the homeland, first promised to Abraham in light of the Babylonian civilization he left. That future hope was reinterpreted by Jesus and taken up by St. Augustine in The City of God, reinterpreted again by John Calvin in Geneva, and given a final form by the Puritan pilgrims who came to America to establish the City upon a Hill. Fundamental to this quest for a just, holy civilization has been the progress of humankind on the earth in light of the mandate to fill and rule over it. Authors Chad Brand and Tom Pratt discuss that progress as they answer the vital questions for praxis: How should biblically oriented Christians think of and work toward God's justice along the way? How can we steer between a utopian vision and a limited vision to a new rational compassion?Religion and civilizationGenerated by AIJustice, Administration of, in the BibleGenerated by AIReligion and civilizationJustice, Administration of, in the Bible261.8Brand Chaf1835763Pratt Tom1745329MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910148784303321Awaiting the City4412713UNINA