It may be that those of us with a background in econ tend to denude progressive ideas of a broader moral framework that renders them barren in the eyes of the average person. Like some kind of radical insurance salesman. The secular impulse tends to discount religious passion.
Don't forget A.J. Muste. mbs . . . I guess my point is that if you do not ground your political message in social values and not just personal gain, one's chance at success is greatly diminished. (I would also point to the political success of such value-founded individuals as Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, Aristide, etc.) For what it is worth, Paul Phillips Eubulides wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Daniel Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >How about, since this is Appeal To The Religious Week, just saying that >gutting SS is a pretty poor way to "Honor thy Father and Mother?" > >dd > >=================== > >Here's the website for the Association of Christian Economists. You have >no choice on this if you want to be strategic: > >http://www.gordon.edu/ace/ > >http://www.gordon.edu/ace/aceNews.html > > >I would recall also the Evangelical who did incredible work on taxation in >Alabama. > >There's also been quite a few good texts that take historical >sociology-political economy and use them as tools to analyze Biblical >history. They suspend the issues of Christology etc. quite well. Some have >even gone so far as to use Eric Hobsbawm's theory of banditry to inform >their analyses. Here are three worth a peek [ I have them and they're >quite good]: > >Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus; >Richard A. Horsley, John S. Hanson > >Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder; Richard >A. Horsley [a great anti-imperial polemic, btw] > >Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation: William R. >Herzog > > >
