TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weaver,Matthew Lon
AU  - Brown,Charles C.
AU  - Bush,Randall K.
AU  - Dorrien,Gary
AU  - Hammond,Guyton B.
AU  - Iosso,Christian T.
AU  - Long,Edward LeRoy,Jr
AU  - Raines,John C.
AU  - Robb,Carol S.
AU  - Roberts,Samuel K.
TI  - Applied Christian Ethics: Foundations, Economic Justice, and Politics
SN  - 9780739196595
AV  - BJ1251 -- .A67 2014eb 
U1  - 241 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Christian ethics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: Foundations -- Chapter One: Social Christianity, Niebuhrian Realism, and the Protestant Mainline -- Chapter Two: Paul Tillich and the Frankfurt School -- Chapter Three: Toward a Constructive "Religious Realism" -- Chapter Four: Paul Tillich and the Lingering Possibility of Prophetic Activity -- Chapter Five: Recent Books about Reinhold Niebuhr and Reflections on His Relevance Today -- Chapter Six: Calvin for Today -- Chapter Seven: The Life and Practice of an Ethicist -- II: Economics and Justice -- Chapter Eight: Cowboys, Indians, and Ethicists -- Chapter Nine: Justice, Power, and International Organizations -- Chapter Ten: Making Global Capitalism More Just by Imposing an International Transaction Tax -- Chapter Eleven: Responding to "Not in My Backyard" Advocates -- III: Politics, War, and Peacemaking -- Chapter Twelve: Redeeming Democracy -- Chapter Thirteen: The Development and Nature of the Peacemaking Idea -- Chapter Fourteen: The Church Reformed and Always Resisting -- Chapter Fifteen: Vietnam -- Chapter Sixteen: Drones and Christian Morality -- Afterword -- Index -- About the Contributors -- About the Editor
N2  - Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. Part one shows the roots of contributors in the realist school; part two focuses on different levels of the significance of economics for social justice; and part three deals with both existential experience and government policy in war and peace issues
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