Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy

Paul S. Chung is Associate Professor at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. His books related to a prophetic theology of God's mission, transcultural hermeneutics, and justice in the public sphere include 'The Cave and the Butterfly' (2010) and 'Liberating Lutheran Theology' (together with Ulrich Duchrow and Craig L. Nessan, 2011), among others.

• Foreword by Ulrich DuchrowPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Church and Economic Justice1 Colonialism and the Historical Development of Capitalism2 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism3 Political Right and Economic Freedom4 Industrial Capitalism and the Self-Regulating Market5 Sociocritical Dialectics in the Shift from Alienation to Emancipation6 The Dynamism and Limitations of the Capitalist System7 The Reality of Late Capitalism and Its Challenge8 Capitalism and World-Systems Analysis9 Economic Globalization, Neo-Liberalism, and Empire10 Alternatives to Global Capitalism in Ecumenical ContextExcursus: East Asian Religions and Social JusticeEpilogue: A Theology of God's Life and Emancipation from Greed and DominionBibliographyIndex

Paul Chung's book, dedicated to Ulrich Duchrow, does not offer us a theological engagement with economics in the way, say, that Douglas Meeks did or Duchrow does, but rather a history of the ideas which got us where we are, and an account of the discussion surrounding them.