After the Market

The Author: Malcolm Brown is Principal of the East Anglian Ministerial Training Course in the Cambridge Theological Federation. He has previously worked in Industrial Mission and was, until 2000, Executive Secretary of the William Temple Foundation, an ecumenical research and training unit focussing on theology, the economy, and urban communities. His previous publications include Putting Theology to Work, co-edited with Peter Sedgwick (1998).

• Contents: The Churches’ Engagement with the Economy in Britain since the Second World War – A Framework Drawn from McIntyre – Markets, Morals and Communities – The Liberal Tradition in Social Theology – Communitarian and Confessional Approaches to Social Theology – Reviewing Liberal and Communitarian Theologies – Dialogic Traditionalism: An Emerging Theological Model – Reconsidering Practice – Reconstructing the Churches’ Engagement with the Economy.

«I commend this book because it is an important offering to the debate on what constitutes public theology and offers practitioners a model that roots practical action in a theology that can speak across disciplines.» (Terry Drummond, IMAgenda)