General Editor's preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Summary
This book is the twenty-third in the series New Studies in Christian Ethics. There are many points of mutual concern between this important book and others within the series. Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics takes a very similar inclusive approach to public theology in this area, from an Anglican position, as does David Fergusson's Community, Liberalism and Christian Ethics, from a Reformed position. Douglas Hicks's Inequality and Christian Ethics explores at length the issue of urban inequality that is one of the negative features of economic compulsion. And both David Hollenbach's The Common Good and Christian Ethics and the first monograph in the series, Kieran Cronin's Rights and Christian Ethics, set the whole discussion into a wider context of Catholic public theology.
Together these monographs admirably fulfill the two key aims of New Studies in Christian Ethics as a whole – namely, to promote studies in Christian ethics which engage centrally with the present secular moral debate at the highest possible intellectual level and, secondly, to encourage contributors to demonstrate that Christian ethics can make a distinctive contribution to this debate.
Albino Barrera's new book is particularly welcome because it involves an important subject, it is well and clearly written (you do not need to be an economist to understand it), it engages with the secular literature, it is theologically sophisticated and it reaches challenging conclusions.
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- Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005