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After the market : economics, moral agreement, and the churches' mission / Malcolm Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Malcolm, 1954-
- Series:
- Religions and discourse ; v. 23.
- Religions and discourse ; v. 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Economics.
- Liberalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Liberalism.
- Communitarianism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Communitarianism.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : P. Lang, [2004]
- Contents:
- Practice: The Shape of the Problem 19
- What is Liberalism? 23
- Plurality 26
- Communitarianism 28
- Postmodernism and Postmodernity 30
- 2. The Churches' Engagement with the Economy in Britain since the Second World War 33
- The Board for Social Responsibility 35
- Industrial Mission 45
- 3. A Framework Drawn from MacIntyre 57
- Why MacIntyre? 57
- Liberalism and its Alternatives 60
- Epistemological Crises 69
- Is MacIntyre a Liberal or a Communitarian? 71
- 4. Markets, Morals and Communities 79
- The Liberal Market Model and its Failings 79
- Markets and Shared Moral Values 87
- Economists Engaging with Moral Questions 92
- Keynes and Economics: Technical and Moral 95
- The Morality of Markets and the Shared Moral Fabric 98
- Hayek, Plurality and Distributive Justice 102
- Seeking Limited Agreements: The Case for Civil Society 106
- 5. The Liberal Tradition in Social Theology 115
- The Ambiguities of Liberalism: Ronald Preston 120
- Neo-Conservative Market Theology: Michael Novak 130
- Revisionist Liberalism and Public Theology: Ronald Thiemann and Max Stackhouse 141
- 6. Communitarian and Confessional Approaches to Social Theology 151
- Radical Orthodoxy: John Milbank 152
- The Church as a Social Ethic: Stanley Hauerwas and Michael Banner 165
- Liberative Lutheranism and the Status Confessionis on the Economy: Ulrich Duchrow 181
- 7. Reviewing Liberal and Communitarian Theologies 193
- 8. Dialogic Traditionalism: An Emerging Theological Model 205
- Towards a Natural Theology: The Contribution of Ian Markham 206
- 'The Solidarity of the Shaken': The Contribution of Andrew Shanks 211
- Identity, Solidarity, Discernment: The Contribution of Peter Selby 215
- Moral Bricolage: The Contributions of Forrester and Stout 219
- Dialogic Traditionalism 222
- The Relevance of Dialogic Traditionalism to Economics 226
- 9. Reconsidering Practice 235
- Local Communities 243
- Globalization 253
- Ecclesiology 260
- Reflections on Methodology 265
- Implications for Practice 274
- 10. Reconstructing the Churches' Engagement with the Economy 281
- Refining Dialogic Traditionalism in the Light of Practice 282
- Areas for Further Research 285
- Implications for the Churches' Engagement with the Economy 286
- Appendix Background to the Practice Examples 291
- The Black Country Urban Industrial Mission 291
- The Social, Economic and Industrial Affairs Committee of the Church of England's Board for Social Responsibility 293
- The Work and Economy Network in the European Churches 295
- The Research Relationship 297.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-313) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820469645
- OCLC:
- 54880708
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