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God and Capitalism
A Prophetic Critique of Market Economy
Edited by Vern Visick and J. Mark Thomas
Introduction by Norman K. Gottwald
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
114 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.23 in
- Paperback
- 9781532603518
- Published: July 2016
$19.00 / £17.00 / AU$24.00
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Vernon Visick was a campus minister at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of New College-Madison, "an experiment in prophetic inquiry." He holds a PhD in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago, with a special interest in the ethics of the research university.
J. Mark Thomas taught sociology, ethics, and leadership at Madison College and was chair of the sociology department. He holds a PhD in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago and has written widely in the areas of ethics and technology, including the book Ethics and Technoculture.
Both editors helped found the Agenda for a Prophetic Faith lecture series of Madison, Wisconsin, one of the longest-running lecture series on religion and politics in the United States. The chapters in this book were originally given as lectures in this series in 1987.
"I welcome the reissue of this theological critique, written during the first flush of post-Cold War capitalist triumphalism in the early 1990s. These essays remain relevant for a new generation of faith communities awakening to the challenge of social and economic justice."
--Ched Myers, Activist Theologian
"Justice is at the heart of theological ethics and it can only be measured by the yardstick of the poor, these essays insist. Long after the historical situation described in these essays has changed, this prophetic perspective will endure."
--J. Mark Thomas, from the Introduction