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Baskin, Stuart Goodrich.

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In search of a moral economy: Churches and theologians in the milieu of the 1980s.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	In search of a moral economy: Churches and theologians in the milieu of the 1980s./
Author:	Baskin, Stuart Goodrich.
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-07, Section: A, page: 2581.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-07A.
Subject:	Theology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3061036
ISBN:	0493765220

In search of a moral economy: Churches and theologians in the milieu of the 1980s.
Baskin, Stuart Goodrich.

In search of a moral economy: Churches and theologians in the milieu of the 1980s. - 227 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-07, Section: A, page: 2581.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education, 2002.

The decade of the 1980s witnessed dramatic shifts in the political climate of the United States. The election of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States in 1980 signaled an important change in the direction of federal government social policy. Since the Franklin Roosevelt administration, the federal government had pursued a host of social policies, such as a forty-hour work week, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and collective bargaining by labor unions, designed to mitigate the effects of the free market on the lives of ordinary persons. Churches and theologians had been powerful advocates for these and similar policies even before the federal government enacted them, beginning with the Social Gospel movement in the 1890s. The shifting political climate in the United States during the 1980s, therefore, constituted a crisis for many in the church. For others, however, this was a welcome change. Whether opposed to or supportive of these changes, a variety churches and theologians wrote extended theological reflections on economics as a whole, instead of the usual fare of issue-oriented analysis. Several mainline churches, as well as the United States Catholic Bishops, represented a longer tradition of Social Christianity. Michael Novak and other independent theologians represented a classically liberal tradition. Using a set of analytical tools found in the work of various theological ethicists, this dissertation attempts to bring these two traditions into critical conversation. Examining four elements of moral arguments (i.e. interpretations of the circumstances calling for moral action; specific understandings of moral norms guiding actions; assumptions about the characteristics, possibilities, and limitations of human beings as moral agents; and fundamental loyalties that are furthered by a particular policy), along with fundamental beliefs about God and the world represented by dominant images, enables us to bring the texts into meaningful conversation. The central argument of this dissertation is that while the fundamental orientation of the Social Christian tradition is a more faithful representation of the gospel, it needs to be amended or revised in light of arguments made by Novak and other representatives of the liberal tradition.

ISBN: 0493765220Subjects--Topical Terms:

516533
Theology.

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