Social Selves and Political Reforms Five Visions in Contemporary Christian Ethics

by Snarr, C. Melissa

• ISBN13: 9780567026033
• ISBN10: 0567026035
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Christian ethicists from a wide spectrum of methods and commitments come together in arguing for some kind of social conception of the self, noticing that convergence sheds new light on the current range of theoretical options in Christian ethics. But not all visions of the social self are equal. Snarr's book explores and evaluates five different visions of the social self from five key ethicists.

Table of Contents

Preface: Faithful Participation
Introduction: Politics and Christianizing the Social Self
Walter Rauschenbusch and Organizing the Social	p. 1
Reinhold Niebuhr and Social Anxiety	p. 27
Stanley Hauerwas and the Church Social	p. 49
Beverly Harrison and Radical Sociality	p. 71
Emilie Townes and the Socially Resilient Self	p. 89
Conclusion: Socializing Christian Political Ethics	p. 105
Postscript: The Work That Lies Ahead	p. 121
Bibliography	p. 123
Index	p. 131
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