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Books for Pastors: Social Ethics

Posted on June 3, 2024November 6, 2023 by ptsblog
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“What are some books that every pastor should read?”

PTS faculty were asked this question in spring 2023. Consider these 15 recommendations for ethics:

  • Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society
  • Ellen Ott Marshall, Introduction to Christian Ethics: Conflict, Faith, and Human Life
  • Traci West, Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women’s Lives Matter
  • Emilie Townes, Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
  • Jenell Williams Paris, The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define Who We Are
  • Jan Holton, Longing for Home: Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality
  • Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community
  • Charles Marsh, The Beloved Community
  • Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
  • Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground
  • Dorothy Day, Selected Writings

Economic Inequality

  • Susan Crawford Sullivan, Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty
  • Gustavo Gutierrez, We Drink from Our Own Wells
  • Douglas Massey, Categorically Unequal
  • Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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