Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American TraditionISBN: 978-1-4051-8687-2
Hardcover
752 pages
December 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Charts the story of social ethics - the idea that Christianity has a social-ethical mission to transform society - from its roots in the nineteenth century through to the present day
- Discusses and analyzes how different traditions of social ethics evolved in the realms of the academy, church, and general public
- Looks at the wide variety of individuals who have been prominent exponents of social ethics from academics and self-styled “public intellectuals” through to pastors and activists
- Set to become the definitive reference guide to the history and development of social ethics