Human Dependency and Christian Ethics

This book engages Christian love theologies, feminist economics, and political theory to identify elements of a Christian ethic of dependent care relations.

List of contents

1. Human dependency, justice, and Christian love; 2. The marginalization of dependency and care in political theory; 3. Economics and the erasure of the care economy; 4. Sacrificial models of Christian love: distortions of need, nature, and justice; 5. Agape as equal regard: importing moral boundaries into Christian ethics; 6. Contemporary retrievals of thomistic accounts of love and justice; 7. Elements of justice for a dependent care ethic; 8. Resources for a Christian ethic of dependent care relations.

About the author

Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Loyola University, Chicago, where she teaches feminist ethics, social ethics and sexual ethics. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Ethics and Social Theory from the Graduate Theological Union, a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, California and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

The book undertakes an interdisciplinary dialogue between Christian love ethicists, feminist economists, feminist political theorists, and other scholars of the global care economy, and will be of interest to scholars in all these fields. It proposes elements necessary for an adequate ethic of love and justice for dependent care relations.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Sullivan Dunbar, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar, Sandra (Loyola University Sullivan-Dunbar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107168893
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16889-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: New Studies in Christian Ethic; New Studies in Christian Ethics; New Studies in Christian Ethic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; RELIGION / Ethics, Christianity, Christian theology, Religious ethics, Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships