Economic Ethics & the Black Church

Presents a timely examination of economic ethicsGives special attention to rural poverty and its examination of the Black Church's economic ethic, and its comparative theological analysis of predominant forms of theological engagement with economic justiceAllows readers to hear the voices of silenced communities

Presents a timely examination of economic ethics Gives special attention to rural poverty and its examination of the Black Church's economic ethic, and its comparative theological analysis of predominant forms of theological engagement with economic justice Allows readers to hear the voices of silenced communities Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Wylin D. Wilson, is Adjunct Professor in the Tuskegee University College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences. She is the former Associate Director of Education at the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

Inhalt

1: Introduction: Poverty, Theology and Justice Fifty Years After the War on Poverty.- 2: Coping with and Hoping through Faith Despite Economic Circumstances.- 3: Still Standing Under Economic Pressure: Case Study Churches.- 4: Strivin' Day to Day: Economic Reality and Religious Experience.- 5: The Substance of Things: Categorical and Comparative Analysis of Faith's FoundationChurch, Faith, Christ.- 6: The Evidence of Things: Categorical and Comparative Analysis of the Link between Poverty, Theology and Justice.- 7: Keeping Faith with the Poor: Liberationist Economic Ethics.