A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 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 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 INDICE: Acknowledgments. Plates. Introduction. 1. Inventing Social Ethics (Francis Greenwood Peabody, William Jewett Tucker, and Graham Taylor). 2. The Social Gospel (Washington Gladden, Josiah Strong, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Harry F. Ward). 3. Lift Every Voice (Reverdy C. Ransom, Jane Addams, and John A.Ryan). 4. Christian Realism (Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, John C. Bennett, and Paul Ramsey). 5. Social Christianity as Public Theology (Walter G. Muelder, James Luther Adams, John Courtney Murray, and Dorothy Day). 6. Liberationist Disruptions (Martin Luther King Jr., James H. Cone, Mary Daly, and Beverly W. Harrison). 7. Disputing and Expanding the Tradition (Carl F. H. Henry,John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, Michael Novak, and Jim Wallis). 8. Dealing with Modernity and Postmodernity (Charles Curran, James M. Gustafson, Gibson Winter, Cornel West, Katie G. Cannon, and Victor Anderson). 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). 10. Borders of Possibility: The Necessity of Discredited Social Gospel Ideas. Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3730-3
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 752
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés