Just capitalism
Subtitle: a Christian ethic of economic globalization
By: Brent Waters
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Louisville, Kentucky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780664234300
Subjects: Capitalism; Christianity; Globalization
Description: Just Capitalism is a Christian moral defense of economic globalization as a system that is well-suited to provide the necessary material needs that are prerequisite for human community and flourishing. Global-based market exchange offers the development and distribution of the goods of creation for humans to enjoy and share. Globalization also offers "the most realistic and promising way of exercising a preferential option for the poor." Waters argues that economic globalization, and thus capitalism, is a necessary condition for sustaining human life but not a sufficient condition for enabling human flourishing. Even though globalization is generally compatible with Christian theological and moral claims and can realistically facilitate the well-being of the human family, it must be reoriented toward koinonia -- human community, communication, fellowship -- as the global economy's primary goal in order to help actualize human flourishing. Readers will gain insight about how economic globalization (and thus capitalism) is good for the human family and can be made better by certain reorientations that are compatible with Christian moral values. Waters provides a mature and civil counterargument against knee-jerk condemnations of economic globalization and capitalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization 2.0 -- -- Part 1:; title: Sustaining Human Life: Why Exchange is Necessary --; title: Christian Moral Theology and Economics --; title: Markets, Competition, and Cooperation --; title: Creative Destruction, the State, and the Holy Spirit --; title: Good of Affluence --; title: Poverty and Impoverishment -- -- Part 2: ... but not Sufficient: Enabling Human Flourishing; title: Reorienting Exchange --; title: Koinonia: Communicating the Goods of Creation --; title: Civil Society and Political Ordering --; title: Freedom and Justice --; title: Stewardship.