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Moral Fragments and Moral Community

A Proposal for Church in Society
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Western society today lives from community fragments and moral fragments alone, and these fragments are being destroyed more quickly than they are being replenished. Larry Rasmussen assesses the long-term reasons for this situation and then proposes the forms and tasks that churches can undertake to help mend and improve civil society. This book, which had its origin in the Hein/Fry Lectures in 1991-92, functions both as an assessment of the moral climate in America today and also as a proposal for the church in contemporary society.
Larry L. Rasmussen is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary.
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
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