Harlan Beckley
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Economic Justice : Selections From Distributive Justice And A Living Wage
$39.00Add to cartDuring the first half of the twentieth century, John A. Ryan advocated minimum wage legislation and child labor restrictions and was very much involved in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. More closely connected with the makers of national economic policy as a Catholic moral theologian than his better-known Protestant contemporaries. Walter Rauschenbusch and Reinhold Niebuhr, his influence has been extensive in American public policy. This volume brings to readers pertinent selections from Ryan’s classic works. It will be particularly relevant to today’s readers concerned about the place of religious faith in economic policy.
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Passion For Justice
$52.00Add to cartBy focusing on the idea of justice in the words of three important American Christian social thinkers, Beckley has achieved several worthy ends. He refines the systematic issues in Christian thinking about justice and elates them some current discussions and proposals of his own. The reader is informed and illumined by this insightful analysis.