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Title

Welfare in America : Christian perpectives on a policy in crisis / edited by Stanley W. Carlson-Thies and James W. Skillen.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Carlson-Thies, Stanley W.
• Skillen, James W.

Description

xxi, 582 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Church and social problems > United States
• Public welfare > Christianity
• Public welfare > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : the American welfare policy crisis : a challenge to Christian reflection / Stanley W. Carlson-Thies -- Why end "welfare as we know it"? / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Beneath and beyond the state : social, global, and religious changes that shape welfare reform / Max L. Stackhouse -- Who cares? Poverty and the dynamics of responsibility : an outsider's contribution to the American debate on poverty and welfare / Bob Goudzwaard -- What's wrong with welfare rights? / Mary Ann Glendon -- Defining poverty through the welfare debate : limitations for policy and program response / Stephanie Baker Collins -- The question of being human in assessing the requirements of welfare policy reform / James W. Skillen -- Biblical teaching and the objectives of welfare policy in the United States / John D. Mason -- Foundations of the welfare responsibility of the government / Stephen Charles Mott -- The poverty debate and human nature / Lawrence M. Mead -- Opposite sexes or neighboring sexes? : the importance of gender in the welfare responsibility debate / Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen.
• Rights talk and welfare policy / Paul Marshall -- The antipoverty dynamic of religion : lessons from Guatemala for U.S. welfare policy / Anne Motley Hallum -- Family issues in welfare reform : developmental pathways as a theoretical framework for understanding generational cycles of poverty / Vynthia Jones Neal -- Rural poverty : Christian charity and social justice responses / Mary P. Van Hook -- Doing analysis as service along "the way" : the social policy analysis ofthe Center for Public Justice / John Heimstra -- Free schools andmthe revival of urban communities / Charles L. Glenn -- Overcoming poverty : the role of religiously based nonprofit organizations / Stephen V. Monsma -- Correcting the welfare tragedy : toward a new model for church/state partnership / Ronald J. Sider and Heidi Rolland -- Social service agencies and religious freedom : regulation, funding, and the First Amendment / Julia K. Stronks -- Balancing care and cure : the place of health care reform in the welfare reform debate / Clarke E. Cochran -- Conclusion : Reforming welfare and redirecting government / Stanley W. Carlson-Thies -- Appendix : "A new vision for welfare reform : an essay in draft."

ISBN

0802841279 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95042240^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library