Beyond the Social Maze Exploring Vida Dutton

Exploring Vida Dutton Scudder's theological ethics, this work demonstrates the ways in which she brought a distinctive perspective to bear on the social gospel project. Her theological perspective differed from that of Walter Rauschenbusch, the most famous proponent of the movement.

Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty is Assistant Professor of Theology at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky

Preface

vii

Why Vida Dutton Scudder?

1

(22)

A Theological Ethicist and a Social Gospeler

2

(7)

``I Am No Theologian''

9

(3)

A Growing Appreciation for Her Work

12

(4)

A Systematic Exploration of Scudder's Thought

16

(7)

Vida Dutton Scudder's Theological Vision

23

(28)

Concepts of God Relevant to the Modern Era

24

(3)

A Social Mystic

27

(4)

The Trinity: A Cooperative Vision of God

31

(4)

Christ

35

(1)

Jesus and His Teachings about the Kingdom of God

35

(4)

Jesus' Sacrifice and What His Suffering Meant

39

(4)

The Church and the World

43

(1)

Spirit-Inspired Community

44

(1)

Democratic Impulse in the Church

45

(6)

Character and the Cooperative Commonwealth

51

(42)

Character in a Competitive Environment

52

(4)

Socialism: ``A Stream Nearing a Waterfall''

56

(2)

Scudder's Experience of Working-Class Life

58

(4)

An Ethics of Inequality

62

(1)

Creating a Better Moral Environment

63

(1)

Freedom, Power, and Shaping Moral Character

64

(5)

Scudder's Vision of the Cooperative Commonwealth

69

(1)

The Ethics of Equality

70

(2)

The Church and the Cooperative Commonwealth

72

(1)

The Church and the Ethics of Inequality

72

(2)

The Church and the Ethics of Equality

74

(2)

Women and the Cooperative Commonwealth

76

(1)

College Women and Social Need

77

(7)

Women and the New Social Order

84

(9)

Scudder's Moral Reasoning, Sources, and Norms

93

(32)

An Environment That Nurtured ``Instincts of Defiant Self-Protection''

93

(3)

Created in God's Cooperative Image

96

(1)

Social Responsibility and Essential Human Nature

97

(2)

``New Womanhood''

99

(2)

F. D. Maurice's Theology and Scudder's View of Human Nature

101

(2)

Communities That Embodied God's Cooperative Image

103

(2)

Jesus and St. Francis: Embodied Equality, Self-Sacrifice, and Solidarity

105

(1)

Jesus' Embodiment of Key Values

106

(1)

St. Francis Lived the Way of the Cross

107

(2)

Cooperative Commonwealth: Scudder's Loyalty

109

(1)

Policies for a Cooperative Commonwealth

110

(1)

Labor Regulation

111

(2)

Suffrage for Women a Duty, Not a Right

113

(2)

From Pacifism of the Future to Pacifism as Resistance

115

(2)

No Longer in Doubt

117

(8)

Scudder's Social Vision: An Enduring Legacy

125

(16)

The Impact of Her Work

125

(4)

Scudder's Enduring Legacy

129

(1)

The Corporate Church as an Instrument of Redemption

129

(5)

An Undercurrent of Realism

134

(3)

Concluding Comments

137

(4)

Bibliography

141

(16)

Index

157

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Beyond the Social Maze Exploring Vida Dutton Scudder's Theological Ethics

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