Acknowledgments
CHAPTER ONE
Conclusion and Question
Describing the Moment
The Church and Moral Criticism
CHAPTER TWO
Modernity and Middle America
Approaches
Modernity Considered
CHAPTER THREE
Hard Journey, Uncertain Outcome
Community's Changing Face
Community and Civil Society
Fast Forward
Fragmentation
Double Loss
CHAPTER FOUR
Market and State as Moral Proxies
Society as Market, Society as State
Common Outcomes
Community's Contribution
Enlightenment Ethics
CHAPTER FIVE
Present Currents
The Device Paradigm
Catechisms
The 1980s
CHAPTER SIX
Everything at Once
Everything Is Too Much
Inappropriate Religion and Community
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Ecology of Moral Community
The Character of Community
Communities Needed
CHAPTER EIGHT
A People of the Way
The Way
Anticipatory Way of Life
Timely Roles
Index
Larry L. Rasmussen, a renowned Christian environmental ethicist, is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, emeritus, at Union Theological Seminary. He is the author of Earth Community, Earth Ethics; winner of the Grawemeyer Award; and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Christian Ethics. He has mentored a generation of scholars in eco-theology and green religion, rooted in practices of environmental justice within community contexts. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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