Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Human Dependency, Justice, and Christian Love -- Christian Love as Inclusive, Extravagant Care -- A Framework for Integration: Four Forms of Equality -- Care and the Exercise of Complex Moral Agency -- Snapshots of Moral Complexity in Caregiving Relations -- Unfolding the Argument -- Chapter 2 The Marginalization of Dependency and Care in Political Theory -- Enlightenment Social-Contract Theory
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Chapter 4 Sacrificial Models of Christian Love: Distortions of Need, Nature, and JusticeCharacteristics of the Disinterested, Sacrificial Love Tradition -- Niebuhrâ#x80;#x99;s Ethic of Sacrificial Love -- Three Core Problems with Niebuhrâ#x80;#x99;s Account -- Contemporary Expressions of the Sacrificial Love Tradition -- What Ethic of Sacrifice Do We Need? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Agape as Equal Regard: Importing Moral Boundaries into Christian Ethics -- Equal Regard or Universal Love: Agape as Inclusive and Disinterested
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Framing Love Within Thomasâ#x80;#x99;s TheologyCreation and the Place of Human Persons -- Order and Natural Law -- Love and Its Formation Through Virtue -- The Thomistic Account of Love and Dependent Care Relations -- Inclusivity of the Thomistic Order of Love -- Nature and Evolutionary Biology -- Evolution, Ethics, and Theology: Three Approaches -- Natural Inclinations as a Source of Moral Guidance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Elements of Justice for a Dependent Care Ethic -- Necessary Elements of Justice for a Dependent Care Ethic
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Twentieth-Century Theories of JusticeThe Privatization of Care, Affect, and Dependency In Rawls -- Scarcity and the Inviolable Dignity of Embodied, Needy Persons -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Economics and the Erasure of the Care Economy -- The Stigmatization of Dependency -- Erasing the Domestic Economy from Economic Theory -- Gary Becker: Flat Moral Agency and Arbitrary Ends -- Valuing the Domestic Economy: Commodifying the Family? -- Implications for Christian Theologies of Love
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Universal Moral Obligations, Individual Moral Agents, and the Disappearance of DependencyEqual Regard and Special Relations: A Dichotomous, Gendered Construct -- The Debate over Agape and Special Relations -- Special Relations as the Heart of Agape -- Thomistic Reclamations -- Vocation and the Discernment of Obligations -- Universalist Responses: Burdening the Individual -- A Parallel Debate: Justice and Care -- Moral Boundaries -- More Political Dimensions of Care -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Contemporary Retrievals of Thomistic Accounts of Love and Justice
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Dependency is a central aspect of human existence, as are dependent care relations: relations between caregivers and young children, persons with disabilities, or frail elderly persons. In this book, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar argues that many prominent interpretations of Christian love either obscure dependency and care, or fail to adequately address injustice in the global social organization of care. Sullivan-Dunbar engages a wide-ranging interdisciplinary conversation between Christian ethics and economics, political theory, and care scholarship, drawing on the rich body of recent feminist work reintegrating dependency and care into the economic, political, and moral spheres. She identifies essential elements of a Christian ethic of love and justice for dependent care relations in a globalized care economy. She also suggests resources for such an ethic ranging from Catholic social thought, feminist political ethics of care, disability and vulnerability studies, and Christian theological accounts of the divine-human relation.
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Title
Human dependency and Christian ethics.
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9781107168893
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Caring-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
Christian ethics.
Helping behavior-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
Caring-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
Christian ethics.
Helping behavior-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.