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

• Autore: Dorrien Gary J
• Pubblicazione: Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (746 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.80973
• Soggetto topico: Christian sociology - United States; Social gospel - United States; Social ethics - United States; Christian ethics - United States
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Social ethics in the making
• ISBN: 1-282-11599-5; 9786612115998; 1-4443-0576-X; 1-4443-0577-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996205898203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno