Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty & Welfare Reform

ISBN-13: 9780815707912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 179 str.

Mary Jo Bane; Lawrence M. Mead

Opis

People who participate in debates about poverty - and its causes and cures - often speak from religious conviction. But those underlying commitments brought to bear on specific policy choices. experience, academic expertise and political commitments together in this informed discussion of a vexing public issue. Mary Jo Bane writes of her experiences running social service agencies, work that has been informed by Catholic social teaching and the catholic sensibility that is shaped every day by prayer and worship. discusses the role of nurturing Christian virtues and personal responsibility as a means of combating poverty. Quoting Shelley, Mead describes theologians as the unacknowledged leglisators of mankind. from virtue theory. But both assert that an engagement with religious tradition is indispensable to an honest and searching debate about poverty.