Contributor
Stackhouse, Max L.
Imprint:Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., c1995.
Descriptionxii, 979 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:PART A: CLASSICAL RESOURCES: 1. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES: Biblical principles for economic theory and practice / George Monsma -- Creation and fall: Genesis 1:1-4:1; 4:17-26 -- Scarcity, faith, and wisdom / Barry Gordon -- Exodus and covenant: Exodus 6:2-10; 15:19-21 -- The birth of the covenant / Paul D. Hanson -- The ten commandments: economic implications / Max L. Stackhouse -- Prophecy and wisdom: Deuteronomy 15:1-23 -- Sirach 26:29-27:4; 29:8-17; 31:1-11; 38:24-34 -- Property and riches in the Old Testament and Judaism / Martin Hengel -- 2. THE NEW TESTAMENT: The use of the New Testament in social ethics / Stephen Charles Mott -- Matthew's Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5-7 -- Ethical implications of the Sermon on the Mount / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Matthew's parables: Matthew 25:1-46 -- Work as stewardship / Leland Ryken -- Luke's poor: Wealth and poverty in the New Testament world / Bruce J. Malina -- Paul and the letters: From the Jesus movement to the urban Christians / Justo Gonzalez -- The study of the New Testament household: Christian mission, patriarchal order and the household / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Toward a summary of implications: What then shall we do? On using scripture in economic ethics / Max L. Stackhouse -- 3. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS: On the myth of the ring and the economics of the city / Plato -- On the management of the household and the perils of trade / Aristotle -- On justice, law, and nature / Cicero -- On true happiness / Plotinus -- 4. THE CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL TRADITIONS: Who is the rich man that shall be saved? / Clement of Alexandria -- On works and alms / Cyprian -- On good and evil / Augustine -- The rule of Saint Benedict / Benedict -- Of justice, and of cheating / Thomas Aquinas -- 5. THE REFORMATION TRADITIONS: Trade and usery / Martin Luther -- The moral law and the Christian life / John Calvin -- Radical reformers: Stadler and Winstanley -- The true community of the saints / Ulrich Stadler -- The true leveller's standard advanced / Gerald Winstanley and others -- The use of money / John Wesley -- PART B: MODERN DEBATES: 6. ENLIGHTENMENT THEORIES: Of property / John Locke -- Of the causes of improvement / Adam Smith -- Private property and its critics / John Stuart Mill -- The principles of the external mine and thine / Immanuel Kant -- Two principles of justice / John Rawls -- Introduction to the philosophy of history / G.W.F. Hegel -- The manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx (with Friedrich Engels) -- 7. RELIGION AND MODERNIZATION: On the Protestant ethic: Asceticism and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber -- On time: Of time: work, prayer, and monks / David Landes -- On law: Theological sources of the western legal tradition / Harold J. Berman -- On usury: On the taking of interest / Benjamin N. Nelson -- On technology: Puritanism, pietism, and science / Robert Merton -- On differentiation: Christianity and society / Talcott Parsons -- 8. SOCIALISM, CAPITALISM, AND CHRISTIANITY: Marxism and Christianity / Charles C. West -- The administration of wealth / Andrew Carnegie -- The church and the workingman / John A. Ryan -- Marx, Barth, and Israel's prophets / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Human freedom, social justice, and Marxism: a biblical response / James W. Skillen -- Slavery, capitalism, and religion / Peter J. Parish -- Women and capitalism: oppression or emancipation? / Janet Thomas -- Liberation and development / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- Religion and economic culture / David Martin -- Social ethics in a post-socialist world / Peter L. Berger -- 9. ECONOMICS AROUND THE WORLD: Islam: Surahs from the Qur-an -- Dealings / Mahmud Shaltaut -- Islam and the spirit of capitalism / Robert Hefner -- Islamic banking: faith and creativity / Ken Brown -- Hinduism: Artha Shastra / Kautiliya -- Tirukkural / Tiruvalluvar -- Indian socialism / Jawaharlal Nehru -- The Hindu ethic and development: western views / Max L. Stackhouse -- Buddhism, asceticism, and wealth: Teachings from the Suttas -- Buddhist attitudes toward poverty and wealth / Phra Rajavaramuni -- Zen and the economic animal / Yamamoto Shichihei -- Buddhist economics / E.F. Schumacher -- The Chinese philosophy: Sayings of Confucius -- Neo-Confucian teachings of Ch'eng Hao -- The dialectical outlook / Mao Tse-Tung -- Is Confucianism part of the capitalist ethic? / Wei-ming Tu -- African traditions and developments: Wisdom from African traditions -- On the division between rich and poor / Julius K. Nyerere -- A surprising silent majority in South Africa / Bill Keller -- 10. RECENT CHURCH DOCUMENTS: Lutheran statement: Economic justice: stewardship of creation in human commuity / The Lutheran Church in America -- The U.S. bishops' pastoral letter: Economic justice for all: Catholic social teaching and the U.S. economy / National Conference of Catholic Bishops -- A mainline Protestant position: Christian faith and economic life / United Church of Christ -- Conservative and evangelical statements: The Villars statement on relief and development -- The Oxford declaration on Christian faith and economics -- A papal encyclical: Centesimus annus / John Paul II
Note:PART C: CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS: 11. THE CHANGING CORPORATION: (1) Moral significance and corporate organization: Spirituality and the corporation / Max L. Stackhouse -- Management as a social practice: rethinking business ethics after MacIntyre / Dennis P. McCann, M.L. Brownsberger -- The potential for building covenants in business corporations / Stewart W. Herman -- Three images of corporate leadership and their implications for social justice / Donald W. Shriver, Jr. -- (2) Structuring organizations for accountability: Ethics and management in the corporate arena / Michael R. Rion -- Creating ethical corporate structures / Patrick E. Murphy -- Corporate accountability: the board of directors / Harold M. Wiliams -- (3) Democratizing the corporation: Is mondragon the way? / John C. Cort -- Evangelical Christians and economic democracy / Shirley J. Roels -- Theory fastball / Max De Pree -- Corporate democracy and the legacy of the South African divestment movement / Robert Kinloch Massie -- 12. ETHICS IN SPECIALIZATIONS OF BUSINESS: (1) Marketing: Business ethics: on getting to the heart of the matter / Paul F. Camenisch -- Challenging a commodity culture / John Kavanaugh -- Capitalism and communative justice / Jon P. Gunnermann -- Ethics, price fixing, and the management of price strategy / William J. Kehoe -- (2) Finance: Have ethics disappeared from Wall Street? / Robert S. bachelder -- The church and Wall Street / Dennis P. McCann -- Theology and money / Paul Hessert -- (3) Accounting: Accounting and accountability: double entry, double nature, double identity / I.C. Stewart -- Accounting and sentiment / Philip M. Pinker -- Meeting the financial reporting needs of the future: a pbulic commitment from the public accounting profession / Board of directors of the AICPA -- (4) HUMAN RESOURCES: Shaping our economic future: dignity in the work place / Elmer W. Johnson -- Learning to manage a multicultural workforce / Lennie Copeland -- Occupational stress is a moral issue: lessons in front of a VDT / Barbara Hilkert Andolsen -- 13. MORAL BUSINESS LEADERSHIP: ORIGINS AND OUTCOMES: (1) Personal moral vision and the calling to busines: Christian faith and business: a story / M.L. Brownsberger -- The Christian vocation of a business leader / Joseph P. Sullivan -- Women in the workplace / Penelope Washbourn -- The protestant ethic: attitude and application give it meaning / Fred Catherwood -- The Protestant work ethic / Fred Catherwood -- Affections and business / John C. Haughey -- (2) When personal calling meets corporate culture: The virtues of the business leader / William F. May -- Minerva's owl: building a corporate value system / William L. Weiss -- Values don't work in business / Dennis Bakke -- (3) Putting faith to the test: Christian ethics and the business ethos / Larry L. McSwain -- When a boss asks for something unethical / Richard Chewning -- Does big business have a big heart? / Claudia McDonnell -- The path to social responsibility / Joseph Nolan, David Nolan -- 14. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: (1) Challenges in emerging global markets: The gross national product and the gods: the idea of economic culture / Peter L. Berger -- The Asian systems / George Lodge -- Korean economy: a model case of a miraculous growth? / Sang-Goog Cho -- Guiding principles / Arun Katiyar, Shefali Rekhi -- The new Poland: major problems for ethical business / Leo V. Ryan -- Reconstituting civic societies: an Afro-American view / Preston N. Williams -- (2) Multinational corporations: Toward a theology of the corporation / Michael Novak -- Developmental responsibility / Lee A. Travis -- Global ethics: wrestling with the corporate conscience / Gene R. Laczniak, Jacob Naor -- (3) Third World development: The people of God and the development of peoples / Cardinal Maurice Roy -- A biblical perspective on stewardship / Ronald J. Sider -- The political task of the Christian church / Cornel West -- The churches and Third World poverty / Mark R. Amstutz -- (4) The economy and the global environment: Two economies / Wendell Berry -- Unoriginal sin: the Judeo-Christian roots of ecotheology / Robert H. Nelson -- Ecological integrity and Christian political responsibility / James A. Nash -- How green is our gospel? / Andrew Steer -- 15. THE ONGOING DISCUSSION: (1) Challenges for the church community: The righteous and the powerful: differing paths to social goals / S. Prakash Sethi -- The ethical premise for social activism / J. Philip Wogaman -- The blue-collar worker and the church / Steve Boint -- The new agenda of the black church: economic development for black America / Lloyd Gite -- Connecting ministry with the corporate world / David A. Krueger -- (2) Challenges for the business community: The moral muteness of managers / Frederick B. Bird, James A. Waters -- Ethics and accountability: the rising power of stakeholder capitalism / J. Richard Finlay -- The lay task of co-creation / Michael Novak -- Business goals and processes / Shirley J. Roels -- (3) The call for new Christian paradigms: The great refusal and my discontent / Robert Benne -- Christians and economic development / Amy L. Sherman -- The four problems of economic life / Daniel Rush Finn -- Ethics, economics, and free trade / John B. Cobb, Jr. -- Liberating thoughts about the ethics of exchange and trade / Robin Klay -- A postcommunist manifesto: public theology after the collapse of socialism / Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann -- EPILOGUE: Where do we go from here? some thoughts on geoeconomics / Dennis P. McCann.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 962-968) and indexes.
