Radical Sufficiency
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Radical Sufficiency
Work, Livelihood, and a US Catholic Economic Ethic
Christine Firer Hinze
Rethinking the means through which we can achieve economic well-being for all. Christine Firer Hinze is a professor of theological ethics and director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Comprehending Power in Christian Social Ethics and Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors: Women, Work, and the Global Economy. She is also the coeditor of More Than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church: Voices of Our Times with J. Patrick Hornbeck, II, and of Working Alternatives: American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy with John C. Seitz. David Cloutier, Darlene Weaver, and Andrea Vicini, SJ
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"Arising from a lifetime of experience with these issues, Christine Firer Hinze's Radical Sufficiency is a refreshingly insightful look at how Catholic faith should encounter gender, race, class, and pervasive consumerism. She outlines a realistic ethic for a just economic order. A brilliant book."—Daniel K. Finn, Clemens Professor in Economics and professor of theology, St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict "What does it mean to have adequate income? How may we ensure that all members of society enjoy true sufficiency? This highly original volume explores how race, gender and social class intersect with social obligations as developed by the Catholic tradition of advocacy for worker rights, and especially by its early twentieth-century progenitor Monsignor John Ryan."—Thomas Massaro, SJ, professor of moral theology, Fordham University "In Christine Firer Hinze's hands, Catholic social thought is a living tradition, attentive to the quotidian power relations of race, gender, and class. Hinze calls us to become persons of solidarity and sufficiency, to work together toward an economy of dignified livelihood for every family. What a beacon of hope!"—Kate Ward, assistant professor, Department of Theology, Marquette University Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. John A. Ryan's US Catholic Case for Worker Justice Chapter 2. Radicalizing Ryan Chapter 3. Gender and Economic Livelihood Chapter 4. Livelihood Racialized Chapter 5. Class, Inequality, and Livelihood Chapter 6. Livelihood Consumed Chapter 7. Toward a Radically Sufficient Economic Order Bibliography Index About the Author |