We can make the world economy a sustainable global home
By: Lewis S. Mudge ; edited by Jean McClure Mudge
Contributors: Mudge, Jean McClure, 1933-
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780802869876
Subjects: Sustainability; Economics; Abrahamic religions; Religious aspects; Christianity and other religions; Christianity
Description: This book by theologian-ethicist Lewis Mudge offers fresh philosophical and theological concepts, economic and political insights, and practical financial proposals to counter the causes and lasting effects of the worldwide recession that began in late 2007. The historical and global dimensions of Mudge's perspective and his open-ended suggestions keep the book's arguments highly relevant today, little affected by daily changes in a world economy still suffering from the reverberations of the credit collapse several years ago. Editorial references in footnotes provide up-to-date data and add nuances to the major issues raised by Mudge. To help foster the ecumenical dialogue Mudge calls for, We Can Make the World Economy a Sustainable Global Home includes responses from Elliott N. Dorff, John C. Knapp, and Djamel Eddine Laouisset -- a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new humanity in a universal household. The recession as a material and spiritual crisis ; Human identity : homo oeconomicus with a spiritual dimension ; The centrality of economics and the hope for a new political economy ; Covenantal humanism : Abrahamic engagement ; Stakeholdership : just institutions and the common good ; The Christian tradition and economics in an Abrahamic context; title: An interfaith challenge to the global economic crisis. A continuing crisis : where might it lead? ; Economics and its religious critics ; The challenge to an involved and divided religious world ; Key historic economic ideas ; Reasons for the crash: the consensus story ; Economic behavior, an expression of the human condition ; Present and future scenarios ; An alternative model : universal stakeholdership ; A role for religious communities, particularly the Abrahamic faiths; title: Outline for my unfinished book, 9/11/2009; title: Responses from a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim. "To work it and preserve it" : a Jewish response to Mudge's covenantal humanism and stakeholdership / Elliot N. Dorff ; A Christian response to Mudge's thesis / John C. Knapp ; An Islamic perspective on covenantal humanism / Djamel Eddine Laouisset.