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Social Ethics in the Making
Interpreting an American Tradition
"This book is a skillful tour de force and an indispensable resource. With his encyclopedic knowledge of the field of social ethics and his seasoned and fair analysis of issues and authors, Gary Dorrien is uniquely qualified to gift us with this masterpiece." "This book amplifies the canon while also providing ethical understandings, regarding both content and method, through which to look at the classical texts in the field. Written in a spirited style, the book will be used by students and scholars for years to come." "Gary Dorrien once again has produced a magisterial volume that deserves to define a field. Social Ethics in the Making begins in the late 19th century with thinkers who sought to understand the ?human condition? in social terms employing the emerging discipline of scientific sociology, concerned to embrace cultural, if not biological, evolution and yet desperate to distinguish social ethics from social Darwinism's conservative congratulation of the dominance of the fittest. The pivotal figure in Dorrien's account is Reinhold Niebuhr, who triggered reactions, in different senses, from both liberationists such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mary Daly, and Beverly W. Harrison, and conservatives and progressive-conservatives such as Carl Henry, Stanley Hauerwas, and Jim Wallis. Beginning primarily as a settlement-house/pro-labor movement, social ethics now is diversified into economic, sexual, ecological, and ethnic studies. Where many have seen the loss of power in social ethics? 'progressivism', Dorrien documents its increasing power in diversification of attention. This is a brilliant, nearly comprehensive, study of an important historical movement in American religion." "Social Ethics in the Making is a masterly overview of a field with immense importance for today's North American intellectual and political scene. Dorrien sorts out the complex trajectories of over a century of Christian ethics. He skillfully places scholarly currents within the cultural and ecclesial trends so essential to their interpretation. Looking forward, the book reclaims the vitality of a distinctively American brand of Christianity, one that promises to be just as energetic, provocative, and practical in this century as in the last. The scope and coherence of Dorrien's achievement find no parallel among other treatments of the subject."
—Daniel C. Maguire, Marquette University
—Dr Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Drew University
—Robert Neville, Boston University
—Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College
Gary Dorrien (Author)
9781444337303, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 26 November 2010
752 pages
24.7 x 17.3 x 4.1 cm, 1.134 kg
"A masterful, careful, and encyclopedic history of Christian social ethics—from the social gospel to Christian realism to liberationist theologies and beyond. It is simply the definitive history of Christian social ethics in the US—a must-read for scholars, students, and practitioners alike." (Choice) "In this magnificent, sprawling and monumental book, Gary Dorrien maps the origins and development of Christian social ethics in the U.S. by making an insightful analysis of its three major traditions and numerous alternatives. Social Ethics in the Making will soon be recognized as a classic. It is a captivating, expertly written and exhaustively researched pilgrimage through the changing landscape of Christian social ethics." (The Christian Century)
In the early 1880s, proponents of what came to be called “the social gospel” founded what is now known as social ethics. This ambitious and magisterial book describes the tradition of social ethics: one that began with the distinctly modern idea that Christianity has a social-ethical mission to transform the structures of society in the direction of social justice.
Plates x Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 1. Inventing Social Ethics: Francis Greenwood Peabody, William Jewett Tucker, and Graham Taylor 6 Becoming Francis Greenwood Peabody 7 Philosophies of Moral Philosophy 10 Beyond Moral Philosophy: Social Ethics 15 The Social Question, William Jewett Tucker, and Liberal Theology 20 Jesus and the Social Question 25 Up from Slavery: The Race Problem in the Social Question 29 Retreating to the Seminaries 32 Getting Peabody Right 35 Christian Sociology: Graham Taylor 36 The Social Gospel in the Classroom and Public Square 44 2. The Social Gospel: Washington Gladden, Josiah Strong, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Harry F. Ward 60 Good Theology and the Social Good: Washington Gladden 61 The Social Gospel Difference and the Challenge of Darwinism 69 Manifest Destiny and the Crucible of Race: Fiske, Gladden, and Josiah Strong 73 The Great War and the Social Gospel 79 The Socialist Kingdom of God: Walter Rauschenbusch 83 Asking the Social Question 87 The Kingdom as Political Theology 89 German America and the Wider Kingdom 92 The Social Crisis and the Social Gospel 94 The Social Gospel Ascending 97 Christianizing the American Order 99 The Great War and the Social Gospel 104 Social Christianity and Radical Reconstruction: Harry F. Ward 109 Ward, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Soviet Spirit 120 3. Lift Every Voice: Reverdy C. Ransom, Jane Addams, and John A. Ryan 146 Becoming Reverdy C. Ransom 147 Mainstreaming the Black Social Gospel 158 Fostering Democratic Citizenship: Jane Addams 168 Democracy, Social Ethics, and Pragmatism 175 Social Doctrine in Action: John A. Ryan 185 Mainstreaming the Catholic Social Gospel 199 4. Christian Realism: Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, John C. Bennett, and Paul Ramsey 226 Becoming Reinhold Niebuhr 226 Rejecting Social Gospel Idealism 236 H. Richard Niebuhr, Liberal Religion, and Radical Monotheism 239 Christian Realism as Socialist Faith 244 Niebuhrian Realism, World War II, and the Cold War 259 The Niebuhrian Method and Legacy 271 Making Sense of Niebuhrian Realism: John C. Bennett and Paul Ramsey 276 A New Liberal Consensus? 287 5. Social Christianity as Public Theology: Walter G. Muelder, James Luther Adams, John Courtney Murray, and Dorothy Day 305 Socializing Personalist Theory: Walter G. Muelder 306 Moral Theory, Culture, and Christian Social Ethics 316 Personalism against the Current 320 James Luther Adams and Unitarian Christianity 324 Rethinking Religious Freedom and Pluralism: John Courtney Murray 334 The American Idea and the Catholic Presence 349 Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement 361 6. Liberationist Disruptions: Martin Luther King Jr, James H. Cone, Mary Daly, and Beverly W. Harrison 390 Martin Luther King Jr and the Beloved Community 391 James H. Cone and Black Liberation Theology 396 Beyond Patriarchal Religion: Mary Daly and the Rebirth of Feminism 411 Christian Feminist Liberation Ethics: Beverly W. Harrison 421 7. Disputing and Expanding the Tradition: Carl F. H. Henry, John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, Michael Novak, and Jim Wallis 447 Carl F. H. Henry and the New Evangelicalism 448 John Howard Yoder and the Politics of Jesus 460 Thinking Christian Pacifism Through: Stanley M. Hauerwas 474 Ideological Americanism: The Neoconservative Reaction 488 Michael Novak and Democratic Capitalism 489 Interrogating Liberation Theology and the Catholic Bishops 503 Progressive Evangelicalism: Jim Wallis 512 8. Dealing with Modernity and Postmodernity: Charles Curran, James M. Gustafson, Gibson Winter, Cornel West, Katie G. Cannon, and Victor Anderson 533 Moral Theology and the Curran Controversy 534 Naturalistic Theocentrism: James M. Gustafson 544 Elements for a Social Ethic: Gibson Winter 549 Prophetic Public Criticism: Cornel West 563 Womanist Ethics: Katie Geneva Cannon 584 Taking Postmodernity Seriously: Victor Anderson 592 9. 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 611 Capitalist Apologetics as Public Theology: Max Stackhouse and Dennis McCann 612 Right Ordering and Sexual Difference 616 Lisa Sowle Cahill: Sources, Norms, and Moral Reasoning 618 Marvin M. Ellison: Sexual Justice 621 Debating Economic Democracy 624 Ecology as Political Economics and Theology 626 Eco-Justice for the Sake of Everything: Larry Rasmussen and Daniel C. Maguire 630 Sharon Welch: Toward an Ethic of Risk and Conflict 637 Emilie Townes: Womanism and the Cultural Production of Evil 640 Latina Feminisms: Ada María Isasi-Díaz and María Pilar Aquino 646 Human Rights and Catholic Social Ethics: David Hollenbach 657 10. Borders of Possibility: The Necessity of “Discredited” Social Gospel Ideas 674 Social Ethics and Racial Justice 677 Foreign Policy Realism and American Empire 680 Economic Democracy: The Future of a Discredited Vision 683 Index 692
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