Inequality and Christian Ethics
Inequality and Christian Ethics
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USDInequality and Christian Ethics, first published in 2000, provides a moral and empirical analysis of contemporary social and economic inequality. Drawing on Christian social ethics, political philosophy, and development economics, the book seeks to create an interdisciplinary conversation that illuminates not only the contemporary realities and trends of inequality, but their moral significance as well. It is necessary to examine and understand inequality in various forms - which the book maps out - including disparity in income, education, and health as well as differentials based on race, ethnicity, gender, and nationality. The book draws in particular on the theological ethics of Gustavo Gutiérrez and H. Richard Niebuhr to provide a Christian ethical approach to inequality and well-being. It considers the 'capability approach' set forth by Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in economics. Sen's framework helps Christians and other persons to add specificity to what the commitment to 'equality before God' would demand in social and economic relations.
- Engages economists and policymakers as directly as any current work in Christian ethics
- Offers a fresh moral perspective for Christians and other citizens on one of the most troubling issues of our time
- Introduces the work of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen into Christian ethics
- Sharpens and applies liberation theology in an innovative way in a post-1989 world that has few careful critiques of globalization's (capitalism's) impacts
Reviews & endorsements
"Hicks has done an admirable job of making economic analysis accessible to the nonspecialist." The Journal of Religion
"Hicks provides a much needed framework for dialogue on the question of the relationship between Christian ethics and inequality. Inequality and Christian Ethics should be on the shelf of every seminary or university library." Religious Studies Review
"Douglas Hicks has written an insightful amalgam of a book...H. has accomplished an important and sophisticated renewal of Christian thinking on a topic of pressing importance." Theological Studies
"a highly interesting conversation between a theological reading of equality and philosophical perspectives on equality and inequality...the indisputable achievement of the book is both theological and political." Theology Today
"...an impressive series..." Andrew Henley, Faith & Economics
Product details
September 2000Paperback
9780521787543
310 pages
216 × 140 × 16 mm
0.37kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Contextualizing Inequality:
- 1. Introduction: inequality matters
- 2. Inequality of what?: interdisciplinary perspectives
- 3. International contexts of inequality
- 4. Inequalities in the United States
- Part II. Constructing a Christian Ethical Approach:
- 5. Christian ethics and theology in a pluralistic society
- 6. Equality before God and the thought of H. Richard Niebuhr
- 7. Equality before God and the thought of Gustavo Gutiérrez
- 8. Solidarity, selfhood, and social goods
- Part III. Transforming Discourse, Persons, and Societies:
- 9. Expanding public discourse on inequality
- 10. An application: inequalities and human development
- 11. Conclusion: implications for inequality and Christian ethics.
