TY  - BOOK
AU  - Malcolm Brown
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1422-8998
TI  - After the Market
T2  - Economics, Moral Agreement and the Churches’ Mission
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096850
N2  - How are the churches to say anything useful about the market economy which is so dominant in everybody’s life today? Too often, Christian responses have failed to take the moral arguments for markets seriously enough. The market’s assertions of liberal individualism and the impossibility of agreement about distributional justice undermine much Christian comment and church practice.  Old divisions within Christian ethics offer little help. Liberal theologies share so many foundations with the market that their critique has been muted or incoherent. Yet communitarian theologies, currently in the ascendancy, show little interest in economics and are not alert to the central dilemmas which markets seek to address.  The book critiques much of the churches’ recent work on economic issues and proposes a renewed theological seriousness for mission in the economy, where the Christian faith might contribute authentically to moral agreement in a plural age.
KW  - Wirtschaftsethik, Social Theology, Großbritannien, Christliche Sozialethik, Economics, Christian Ethics, Liberal Tradition, Communitarian Theologies, Dialogic Traditionalism, Churches' Mission
LA  - English
ER  -