Human Dependency and Christian Ethics
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Dependency is a central aspect of human existence, as are dependent care relations: relations between caregivers and young children, persons with disabilities, or frail elderly persons. In this book, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar argues that many prominent interpretations of Christian love either obscure dependency and care, or fail to adequately address injustice in the global social organization of care. Sullivan-Dunbar engages a wide-ranging interdisciplinary conversation between Christian ethics and economics, political theory, and care scholarship, drawing on the rich body of recent feminist work reintegrating dependency and care into the economic, political, and moral spheres. She identifies essential elements of a Christian ethic of love and justice for dependent care relations in a globalized care economy. She also suggests resources for such an ethic ranging from Catholic social thought, feminist political ethics of care, disability and vulnerability studies, and Christian theological accounts of the divine-human relation.
ISBN
9781316717677
Publication Date
9-2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Keywords
Biblical Studies, Religious Ethics, Christianity, Child care, Helping behavior
Disciplines
Christianity | Ethics in Religion | Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Recommended Citation
Sullivan-Dunbar, Sandra, "Human Dependency and Christian Ethics" (2017). Faculty Books. 256.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/256
