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Social Ethics in the Making

Interpreting an American Tradition
1. Aufl.

von: Gary Dorrien
36,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	06.04.2011
ISBN/EAN:	9781444393798
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	752

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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. <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Discusses and analyzes how different traditions of social ethics evolved in the realms of the academy, church, and general public</li> <li>Looks at the wide variety of individuals who have been prominent exponents of social ethics from academics and self-styled “public intellectuals” through to pastors and activists</li> <li>Set to become the definitive reference guide to the history and development of social ethics</li> <li>Recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 award </li> </ul>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Plates x Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 1. Inventing Social Ethics: Francis Greenwood Peabody, William Jewett Tucker, and Graham Taylor 6 Becoming Francis Greenwood Peabody 7 Philosophies of Moral Philosophy 10 Beyond Moral Philosophy: Social Ethics 15 The Social Question, William Jewett Tucker, and Liberal Theology 20 Jesus and the Social Question 25 Up from Slavery: The Race Problem in the Social Question 29 Retreating to the Seminaries 32 Getting Peabody Right 35 Christian Sociology: Graham Taylor 36 The Social Gospel in the Classroom and Public Square 44 2. The Social Gospel: Washington Gladden, Josiah Strong, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Harry F. Ward 60 Good Theology and the Social Good: Washington Gladden 61 The Social Gospel Difference and the Challenge of Darwinism 69 Manifest Destiny and the Crucible of Race: Fiske, Gladden, and Josiah Strong 73 The Great War and the Social Gospel 79 The Socialist Kingdom of God: Walter Rauschenbusch 83 Asking the Social Question 87 The Kingdom as Political Theology 89 German America and the Wider Kingdom 92 The Social Crisis and the Social Gospel 94 The Social Gospel Ascending 97 Christianizing the American Order 99 The Great War and the Social Gospel 104 Social Christianity and Radical Reconstruction: Harry F. Ward 109 Ward, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Soviet Spirit 120 3. Lift Every Voice: Reverdy C. Ransom, Jane Addams, and John A. Ryan 146 Becoming Reverdy C. Ransom 147 Mainstreaming the Black Social Gospel 158 Fostering Democratic Citizenship: Jane Addams 168 Democracy, Social Ethics, and Pragmatism 175 Social Doctrine in Action: John A. Ryan 185 Mainstreaming the Catholic Social Gospel 199 4. Christian Realism: Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, John C. Bennett, and Paul Ramsey 226 Becoming Reinhold Niebuhr 226 Rejecting Social Gospel Idealism 236 H. Richard Niebuhr, Liberal Religion, and Radical Monotheism 239 Christian Realism as Socialist Faith 244 Niebuhrian Realism, World War II, and the Cold War 259 The Niebuhrian Method and Legacy 271 Making Sense of Niebuhrian Realism: John C. Bennett and Paul Ramsey 276 A New Liberal Consensus? 287 5. Social Christianity as Public Theology: Walter G. Muelder, James Luther Adams, John Courtney Murray, and Dorothy Day 305 Socializing Personalist Theory: Walter G. Muelder 306 Moral Theory, Culture, and Christian Social Ethics 316 Personalism against the Current 320 James Luther Adams and Unitarian Christianity 324 Rethinking Religious Freedom and Pluralism: John Courtney Murray 334 The American Idea and the Catholic Presence 349 Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement 361 6. Liberationist Disruptions: Martin Luther King Jr, James H. Cone, Mary Daly, and Beverly W. Harrison 390 Martin Luther King Jr and the Beloved Community 391 James H. Cone and Black Liberation Theology 396 Beyond Patriarchal Religion: Mary Daly and the Rebirth of Feminism 411 Christian Feminist Liberation Ethics: Beverly W. Harrison 421 7. Disputing and Expanding the Tradition: Carl F. H. Henry, John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, Michael Novak, and Jim Wallis 447 Carl F. H. Henry and the New Evangelicalism 448 John Howard Yoder and the Politics of Jesus 460 Thinking Christian Pacifism Through: Stanley M. Hauerwas 474 Ideological Americanism: The Neoconservative Reaction 488 Michael Novak and Democratic Capitalism 489 Interrogating Liberation Theology and the Catholic Bishops 503 Progressive Evangelicalism: Jim Wallis 512 8. Dealing with Modernity and Postmodernity: Charles Curran, James M. Gustafson, Gibson Winter, Cornel West, Katie G. Cannon, and Victor Anderson 533 Moral Theology and the Curran Controversy 534 Naturalistic Theocentrism: James M. Gustafson 544 Elements for a Social Ethic: Gibson Winter 549 Prophetic Public Criticism: Cornel West 563 Womanist Ethics: Katie Geneva Cannon 584 Taking Postmodernity Seriously: Victor Anderson 592 9. Economy, Sexuality, Ecology, Difference: Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Marvin M. Ellison, John B. Cobb, Jr, Larry Rasmussen, Daniel C. Maguire, Sharon Welch, Emilie M. Townes, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, María Pilar Aquino, and David Hollenbach 611 Capitalist Apologetics as Public Theology: Max Stackhouse and Dennis McCann 612 Right Ordering and Sexual Difference 616 Lisa Sowle Cahill: Sources, Norms, and Moral Reasoning 618 Marvin M. Ellison: Sexual Justice 621 Debating Economic Democracy 624 Ecology as Political Economics and Theology 626 Eco-Justice for the Sake of Everything: Larry Rasmussen and Daniel C. Maguire 630 Sharon Welch: Toward an Ethic of Risk and Conflict 637 Emilie Townes: Womanism and the Cultural Production of Evil 640 Latina Feminisms: Ada María Isasi-Díaz and María Pilar Aquino 646 Human Rights and Catholic Social Ethics: David Hollenbach 657 10. Borders of Possibility: The Necessity of “Discredited” Social Gospel Ideas 674 Social Ethics and Racial Justice 677 Foreign Policy Realism and American Empire 680 Economic Democracy: The Future of a Discredited Vision 683 Index 692

Autorenportrait

Gary Dorrien is the Reinhard Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of 14 books and over 200 articles that range across the fields of ethics, social theory, theology, philosophy, politics, and history.

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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. This book describes the founding and development of social ethics as a discourse in the realms of the academy, church, and general public. It analyzes the three major traditions of social ethics, explains their revisions and offshoots, interprets evangelical and neoconservative alternatives, and delineates the various confessional and cultural standpoints from which religious thinkers have construed the social meaning of Christianity. Almost from the beginning, “social ethics” named a specific academic field and a way of thinking about Christian ethics that transcended the academy. Dorrien pays attention to both meanings, bringing together prominent academic voices and important exponents of social Christianity, including pastors, movement activists, and self-styled “public intellectuals”. Engagingly written by one of the field's leading figures, this book is set to become the definitive reference guide to the history and development of social ethics.