Emerging Tapestry: An Evangelical Lutheran Social Ethic. Issue 3 (4th September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Willer, Roger A.
• Is Part Of: Dialog. Volume 56:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 298
• Page End: 309
• Publication Date: 2017-09-04
• Subjects: social ethic -- responsibility -- theology -- Lutheran -- ecclesial ethics -- ELCA; Theology -- Periodicals; 230.41
• DOI: 10.1111/dial.12341
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0012-2033

Abstract

Abstract: This article argues that an identifiable social ethic is emerging in the social teaching documents of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Reading across the body of teaching and policy it becomes evident how conscientious attention to Lutheran themes and commitments at the interface with contemporary social analysis and questions has produced a coherent ethic. That is, it is relatively comprehensive, responsibly consistent, and remarkably cogent with an identifiable moral imperative and mode of reasoning. The paper delineates the character of this responsibility ethic across the five dimensions of ethics.