Christian Social Ethics

Elmar Nass presents the ethical and anthropological foundations of a liberal social order within a Christian conception of humanity and society in an ecumenical spirit, arguing that Christian social ethics has a critical role to play in engaging the world. He discusses fundamental and concrete social challenges for human dignity, freedom, and justice in the light of the threefold Christian responsibility and articulates ethical orientations derived from a Christian foundation of values. This understanding of social responsibility can address and answer questions of racism, migration, gender and sexuality, the environment, and public health and pandemics.

Format: Hardback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

World events have underscored the urgent need for liberal society to become more resilient in the face of totalitarian challenges. In this groundbreaking work, social ethicist Elmar Nass presents the ethical and anthropological foundations of a liberal social order within a Christian conception of humanity and society in an ecumenical spirit. By reviving the long-neglected discussion on the ethics of order, Nass argues that Christian social ethics has a critical role to play as it engages the world. He vividly discusses fundamental and concrete social challenges for human dignity, freedom, and justice (such as peace, integrity of creation, euthanasia, family, social justice, digitalization, behavioral economics, and many more) in the light of the threefold Christian responsibility (before God, before oneself, before one another). He articulates ethical orientations derived with clarity from a Christian foundation of values. The Christian social ethics system presented by Nass is a transparent value template that can be applied to ever new challenges in the present and in the future. With this understanding of social responsibility, questions of racism, migration, gender and sexuality, the environment, and public health and pandemics, among many others, can thus be addressed and answered. Nass offers a full-throated and robust Christian position for the value discussions of our time.

Weight: 712g
Dimension: 160 x 236 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538165263