Social Ethics Making

by Gary J. Dorrien

Book Overview

In the early 1880s, proponents of what came to be called "the social gospel" founded what is now known as social ethics. This ambitious and magisterial book describes the tradition of social ethics: one that began with the distinctly modern idea that Christianity has a social-ethical mission to transform the structures of society in the direction of social justice. Charts the story of social ethics - the idea that Christianity has a social-ethical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1444337300
• ISBN13: 9781444337303
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"