Market and margins
Subtitle: Lutheran perspectives
By: Wanda Deifelt, editor
Contributors: Association of Teaching Theologians
Publisher: Lutheran University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781932688979
Subjects: Capitalism; Congresses; Lutheran Church; Economics
Description: No generation before ours has witnessed as much social and economic inequality, with a widening gap between those who can afford luxurious life styles and those who barely survive. While a market-based economy allows some to prosper, it also has adverse effects, leaving many at the margins and lacking what they need for subsistence. Can a market economy assure that, through competition, more people will be economic players? Or does a market ruled by the price of commodities lead to the commodification of life itself? Can a global economic order, often guided by greed, be transformed to provide sustainable livelihood for all?
Notes: Papers from the 2013 Consultation of Teaching Theologians, organized by the ELCA/ELCIC Association of Teaching Theologians, held at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina, August 5-7, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "For the market tells us so ..."  -- David Pfrimmer; title: Money, religion, and tyranny : God and the demonic in Luther's antifragile theology  -- Guillermo Hansen; title: Market and margins : theological dialogues from a Lutheran communion perspective  -- Elaine Neuenfeldt; title: Biblical economics in an age of greed  -- Douglas E. Oakman; title: Alternate perspectives : an international system compatible with the gospel  -- Philip W. Moeller; title: Neighbor-love's moral framework : from markets that concentrate wealth to markets that serve abundant life for all  -- Cynthia Moe-Lobeda; title: Nurturing resistance through subversive faith practices  -- Karen L. Bloomquist; title: The market : reality and response  -- James Kenneth Echols; title: Market capitalism and Christian ethics  -- Wayne Miller; title: What do we do now?  -- Leila M. Ortiz; title: A social statement on sufficient, sustainable livelihood for all --; title: Bibliography on the theme of the market and economic justice.