Confusions in Christian social ethics
Confusions in Christian social ethics: problems for Geneva and Rome Ronald H. Preston
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 1995.
ISBN: 0802841252
DDC: 241
LCC: BT738
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Summary:
This excellent case study in Christian social ethics will likely
prove controversial: although Ronald Preston has spent a long and
respected career working within the ecumenical movement, he is
severely critical of the work of the World Council of Churches (WCC)
during the last decade and scarcely less so of much in Roman Catholic
social ethics since Vatican II.
Following a preliminary portrait of the WCC for those unfamiliar with
its work, Preston gives an illuminating history of its activities in
social ethics from its roots in the 1925 Stockholm Conference to the
present day, and of the Roman Catholic Church prior to and following
Vatican II. Preston then examines responses in Christian social
ethics to the collapse of the Soviet Union, to global economic
growth, and to technology, humanity, and the environment. He also
looks critically at some of the slogans under which the WCC has done
its work, at the contending theologies that have gained prominence,
and at the whole question of method in Christian social ethics. A
final chapter looks to the future in ecumenical social ethics, noting
the present stalemate and summarizing the defects in recent
documents, but also outlining a new program and the possibility for
reform.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-195) and index.
Introduction: A Preliminary Sketch - The ABC of the WCC -- 1. An
Outline of Ecumenical Social Ethics 1: From its Roots to 1966 -- 2.
An Outline of Ecumenical Social Ethics 2: From 1966 -- 3. The Roman
Catholic Church, Social Ethics and the Ecumenical Movement -- 4.
Critics from Within and Without -- 5. The Church and its Function in
Society -- 6. Where We are Today 1: Three Issues -- 7. Where We are
Today 2: The Recent Slogan and its Predecessors -- 8. Where We are
Today 3: Contending Theologies -- 9. Questions of Method in Christian
Social Ethics -- 10. Looking to the Future in Ecumenical Social
Ethics.
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