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Toward a Better Worldliness

Ecology, Economy, and the Protestant Tradition
  • ISBN-13: 9781506423333
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Terra Schwerin Rowe
  • Price: AUD $171.00
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  • Local release date: 31/05/2017
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 244 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religious ethics [HRAM1]Christian theology [HRCM]
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Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation inspired profound theological, ecclesial, economic, and social transformations. But what impact does the Protestant tradition have today? And what might it have? This volume addresses such questions, focusing on the economic and ecological implications of the Protestant doctrine of grace. In the late twentieth-century, a number of Protestant scholars countered Max Weber's famous work on Protestantism and capitalism by arguing that Calvin and Luther were prophetic critics of early capitalist practices. This narrative tends to purify Protestantism of capitalist beginnings and does not account for compelling arguments articulated by proponents of Radical Orthodoxy tying Protestantism-and Protestant grace in particular-to capitalism. These debates now emerge with increasing urgency in the face of growing economic injustice and overwhelming evidence of an ecologically unsustainable economic system, demonstrated most potently by climate change. This book develops a fresh reading of Luther's theology of grace and his economic ethics in conversation.
Terra Schwerin Rowe is an adjunct instructor in theology at Wartburg Theological Seminary and in writing at Marist College. She is the author of the Lutheran Study Guide to Pope Francis' Letter on Climate Change and directs an eco-advocacy ministry in New York called The Hudson Valley Cooperative.
Introduction1. Protestant Ghosts and the Spirit of Capitalism: Ecology, Economy, and the Reformation Tradition2. Inheriting the Free Gift: Economic and Ecological Implications3. Ecology of the Gift: The Ecotheologies of Joseph Sittler and Jurgen Moltmann4. The Gift Revisited: Unconditioned and Multilateral5. Communicating Grace6. Toward a "Better Worldliness"BibliographyIndex
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