Originally published: 2008, paperback edition published 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index. Originally published: 2008.
Contents:
Inventing social ethics: Francis Greenwood Peabody, William Jewett Tucker, and Graham Taylor -- The Social Gospel: Washington Gladden, Josiah Strong, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Harry F. Ward -- Lift every voice: Reverdy C. Ransom, Jane Addams, and John A. Ryan -- Christian Realism: Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, John C. Bennett, and Paul Ramsey -- Social Christianity as public theology: Walter G. Muelder, James Luther Adams, John Courtney Murray, and Dorothy Day -- Liberationist disruptions: Martin Luther King, Jr., James H. Cone, Mary Daly, and Beverly W. Harrison -- Disrupting and expanding the tradition: Carl F. H. Henry, John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, Michael Novak, and Jim Wallis -- Dealing with modernity and postmodernity: Charles Curran, James M. Gustafson, Gibson Winter, Cornel West, Katie G. Cannon, and Victor Anderson -- 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 Maria Isasi-Diaz, Maria Pilar Quino, and David Hollenbach -- Capitalist apologetics as public theology: Max Stackhouse and Dennis McCann -- Borders of possibility: the necessity of discredited Social Gospel ideas rc
Summary:
Charting the story of social ethics from its roots in the 19th century through to the modern day, this book discusses and analyzes how different traditions of social ethics evolved in the realms of the academy, church, and general public.
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