Social ethics in the making :

Dorrien, Gary J.

Social ethics in the making : interpreting an American tradition / Gary Dorrien. - Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009. - xviii, 728 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Disputing 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 María Isasi-Díaz, María Pilar Aquino, and David Hollenbach -- Borders of possibility : the necessity of 'discredited' social gospel ideas.

9781405186872 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405186879 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2008009057

988818159 GyFmDB


Christian sociology--United States.
Social gospel--United States.
Social ethics--United States.
Christian ethics--United States.

BT738 / .D65 2009