Just Capitalism: A Christian Ethic of Economic Globalization - Couverture souple

Waters, Brent

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0664234305 ISBN 13 : 9780664234300

Editeur : Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S., 2016

Synopsis

Just Capitalism is a Christian moral defense of economic globalization as a system that is well-suited to provide the necessary material needs that are prerequisite for human community and flourishing. Global-based market exchange offers the development and distribution of the goods of creation for humans to enjoy and share. Globalization also offers "the most realistic and promising way of exercising a preferential option for the poor." Waters argues that economic globalization, and thus capitalism, is a necessary condition for sustaining human life but not a sufficient condition for enabling human flourishing. Even though globalization is generally compatible with Christian theological and moral claims and can realistically facilitate the well-being of the human family, it must be reoriented toward koinonia human community, communication, fellowship as the global economy's primary goal in order to help actualize human flourishing. Readers will gain insight about how economic globalization (and thus capitalism) is good for the human family and can be made better by certain re-orientations that are compatible with Christian moral values. Waters provides a mature and civil counterargument against knee-jerk condemnations of economic globalization and capitalism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brent Waters is the Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics and director of the Jerre L. and Mary Joy Stead Center for Ethics and Values at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He is the author of many books, including Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture: From Posthuman Back to Human; The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought; and From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World. He has also written numerous articles and lectured extensively on the relationship among theology, ethics, and technology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0664234305
• ISBN 13: 9780664234300
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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