Social ethics : an examination of American moral traditions
Roger Betsworth introduces ethics by focusing on the cultural narratives that shape American images of self and world: the biblical story, the American gospel of success, the idea of wellbeing, and the global mission of America. These cultural narratives display the ways in which the sense of self and world, and therefore ethical vision, is...
Print Book, English, ©1990
Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky., ©1990
History
213 pages ; 21 cm
9780664250928, 0664250920
20635580
Introduction
The Biblical story
The gospel of success in America
The story of well-being
The mission of America
The outsiders