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Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Tradition / Edition 1
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- 9781444337303
- Pub. Date:
- 12/13/2010
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- Wiley
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Overview
- 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, church, and general public
- 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
- Set to become the definitive reference guide to the history and development of social ethics
- Recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 award
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781444337303 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 12/13/2010 |
Pages: | 752 |
Sales rank: | 1,138,746 |
Product dimensions: | 6.70(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.80(d) |
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Table of Contents
Plates x
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
1 Inventing Social Ethics Francis Greenwood Peabody William Jewett Tucker 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 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 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 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 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 Paul Ramsey 276
A New Liberal Consensus? 287
5 Social Christianity as Public Theology Walter G. Muelder James Luther Adams John Courtney Murray 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 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 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 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 David Hollenbach 611
Capitalist Apologetics as Public Theology Max Stackhouse Dennis McCann 612
Right Ordering and Sexual Difference 616
Sources, Norms, and Moral Reasoning Lisa Sowle Cahill 618
Sexual Justice Marvin M. Ellison 621
Debating Economic Democracy 624
Ecology as Political Economics and Theology 626
Eco-Justice for the Sake of Everything Larry Rasmussen Daniel C. Maguire 630
Toward an Ethic of Risk and Conflict Sharon Welch 637
Womanism and the Cultural Production of Evil Emilie Townes 640
Latina Feminisms Ada María Isasi-Díaz 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
What People are Saying About This
? Social Ethics in the Making will soon be recognized as a classic. It is a captivating, expertly written and exhaustively researched pilgrimage through the changing landscape of Christian social ethics.? (Christian Century , October 2009)
"This book is a skillful tour de force and an indispensable resource. With his encyclopedic knowledge of the field of social ethics and his seasoned and fair analysis of issues and authors, Gary Dorrien is uniquely qualified to gift us with this masterpiece." Daniel C. Maguire, Marquette University
"This book amplifies the canon while also providing ethical understandings, regarding both content and method, through which to look at the classical texts in the field. Written in a spirited style, the book will be used by students and scholars for years to come." Dr Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Drew University
"Gary Dorrien once again has produced a magisterial volume that deserves to define a field. Social Ethics in the Making begins in the late 19th century with thinkers who sought to understand the 'human condition' in social terms employing the emerging discipline of scientific sociology, concerned to embrace cultural, if not biological, evolution and yet desperate to distinguish social ethics from social Darwinismás conservative congratulation of the dominance of the fittest. The pivotal figure in Dorrien's account is Reinhold Niebuhr, who triggered reactions, in different senses, from both liberationists such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mary Daly, and Beverly W. Harrison, and conservatives and progressive-conservatives such as Carl Henry, Stanley Hauerwas, and Jim Wallis. Beginning primarily as a settlement-house/pro-labor movement, social ethics now is diversified into economic, sexual, ecological, and ethnic studies. Where many have seen the loss of power in social ethics? 'progressivism', Dorrien documents its increasing power in diversification of attention. This is a brilliant, nearly comprehensive, study of an important historical movement in American religion." Robert Neville, Boston University
"Social Ethics in the Making is a masterly overview of a field with immense importance for today's North American intellectual and political scene. Dorrien sorts out the complex trajectories of over a century of Christian ethics. He skillfully places scholarly currents within the cultural and ecclesial trends so essential to their interpretation. Looking forward, the book reclaims the vitality of a distinctively American brand of Christianity, one that promises to be just as energetic, provocative, and practical in this century as in the last. The scope and coherence of Dorrien's achievement find no parallel among other treatments of the subject." Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College