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After the market : economics, moral agreement, and the churches' mission / Malcolm Brown.

Van Pelt Library BR115.E3 B76 2004
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brown, Malcolm, 1954-
Contributor:
Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
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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