Inequality and Christian Ethics

Douglas A. Hicks (University of Richmond, Virginia)

Inequality and Christian Ethics
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 December 2000
Pages
310
ISBN
9780521772532

Inequality and Christian Ethics

Douglas A. Hicks (University of Richmond, Virginia)

Inequality and Christian Ethics provides a moral and empirical analysis of contemporary social and economic inequality. Drawing on Christian social ethics, political philosophy, and development economics, the book seeks to create an interdisciplinary conversation that illuminates not only the contemporary realities and trends of inequality, but their moral significance as well. It is necessary to examine and understand inequality in various forms - which the book maps out - including disparity in income, education, and health as well as differentials based on race, ethnicity, gender, and nationality. The book draws in particular on the theological ethics of Gustavo Gutierrez and H. Richard Niebuhr to provide a Christian ethical approach to inequality and well-being. It considers the ‘capability approach’ set forth by Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in Economics. Sen’s framework helps Christians and other persons to add specificity to what the commitment to ‘equality before God’ would demand in social and economic relations.

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