The World Calling: The Church's Witness in Politics and SocietyThomas Ogletree has devoted much of his career to exploring the significance of Ernst Troeltsch's seminal work, The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches. The articles in The World Calling use a Troeltschian lens to explore fundamental issues underlying any Christian social witness in the context of American democratic institutions. |
Contents
of the Christian Churches | 11 |
11 | 53 |
A Framework | 70 |
Renewing Ecumenical Protestant Social Teaching | 103 |
Reflections on James H Cones | 122 |
The Ecclesial Context of Christian Ethics | 130 |
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