Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social ChristianityGary Dorrien's major work addresses the roots of and remedy to the current crisis in American Christian social ethics.Focusing on the story of American liberal Protestantism, the book examines in fascinating depth the three major movements in this century ? the Social Gospel, Christian Realism, and Liberation Theology ? in a way that also brings African American, feminist, environmentalist, Catholic, and other voices into the increasingly multicultural quest.Dorrien then carefully assesses the crisis of social Christian thought in a culture that is increasingly secular, materialistic, and dominated by capitalism. He shows how the progressive Christian vision of social and economic democracy can be redeemed in the face of its apparent defeat. He argues strongly for a social Christianity faithful to the spiritual reality and kingdom-oriented ethic of the way of Christ.Dorrien's engaging narrative, knowledgeable and fair analysis, and thoughtful proposal bring desperately needed clarity and commitment to the Christian social conscience. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Troeltsch and the History of Christian Social Teaching | 4 |
Rauschenbusch and the Christian Social Revolution | 6 |
Kaus and Civic Liberalism | 8 |
Social Christianity Today | 15 |
CHRISTIANIZING THE MODERN ORDER | 21 |
Shailer Mathewss Reformist Progressivism | 23 |
Walter Rauschenbusch and Democratic Socialism | 25 |
Michael Novak and the Christian Realist Right | 189 |
Neoconservatives and Access to Power | 198 |
Neuhaus and the Catholic Moment | 207 |
DECENTERING VOICES | 221 |
John Courtney Murray and the American Proposition | 229 |
James H Cone and Black Theology | 235 |
Woman Theology | 253 |
Mary Daly and Feminist Theology | 256 |
Mathews and Christian Sociology | 30 |
Rauschenbusch and the Struggle for the Kingdom | 38 |
Mathews and Foreign Policy | 48 |
Rauschenbusch and the Great War | 51 |
Mathews and the War | 54 |
Harry Emerson Fosdick | 60 |
Mathews and Modernism | 69 |
Justin Wroe Nixon | 75 |
Charles Clayton Morrison | 77 |
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian Century | 84 |
CHRISTIAN REALISM | 91 |
Niehbuhr as Antifascist | 102 |
Niebuhr and Realpolitik | 116 |
Niebuhr against the War in Vietnam | 136 |
Niebuhr as Theologian | 143 |
Reinhold and H Richard Niebuhr | 156 |
REALISMS IN CONFLICT | 162 |
John C Bennett | 164 |
Christian Realism in a New Era | 173 |
Liberation Theologies | 181 |
Rosemary Radford Ruether | 263 |
WomenChurch | 275 |
FAILURE OF A DREAM? | 282 |
Neoconservatism and Christian Ethics | 288 |
Market Socialism and Economic Democracy | 293 |
Cooperative Enterprises in the United States | 297 |
Mutual Funds and the Meidner Plan | 301 |
Ecotheology | 308 |
John B Cobb Jr and ThirdWay Economics | 316 |
COMMUNITIES OF MEMORY | 336 |
Habits of the Heart | 337 |
Communitarianism and the Social Gospel | 343 |
Stanley Hauerwas and the Kingdom | 351 |
Culture Religion and American Christianity | 361 |
James Gustafson and the Church as Participant | 367 |
The Kingdom of Christ | 371 |
The Next Generation | 373 |
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