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• catalog abstract "Annotation People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction. But those convictions are rarely made explicit or debated on their own terms. Rarely is the influence of personal religious commitment on policy decisions examined. Two of the nation's foremost scholars and policy advocates break the mold in this lively volume, the first to be published in the new Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion and Public Life. The authors bring their faith traditions, policy experience, academic expertise, and political commitments together in this moving, pointed, and informed discussion of poverty, one of our most vexing public issues. Mary Jo Bane writes of her experiences running social service agencies, work that has been informed by "Catholic social teaching, and a Catholic sensibility that is shaped every day by prayer and worship." Policy analysis, she writes, is often "indeterminate" and "inconclusive." It requires grappling with "competing values that must bebalanced.", It demands judgment calls, and Bane's Catholic sensibility informs the calls she makes. Drawing from various Christian traditions, Lawrence Mead's essay discusses the role of nurturing Christian virtues and personal responsibility as a means of transforming a "defeatist culture" and combating poverty. Quoting Shelley, Mead describes theologians as the "unacknowledged legislators of mankind" and argues that even nonbelievers can look to the Christian tradition as "the crucible that formed the moral values of modern politics." Bane emphasizes the social justice claims of her tradition, and Mead challenges the view of many who see economic poverty as a biblical priority that deserves"preference ahead of other social concerns." But both assert that an engagement with religious traditions is indispensable to an honest and searching debate about poverty, policy choices, and the public purposes of religion.".
• catalog contributor b13024872.
• catalog contributor b13024873.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description "Annotation People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction. But those convictions are rarely made explicit or debated on their own terms. Rarely is the influence of personal religious commitment on policy decisions examined. Two of the nation's foremost scholars and policy advocates break the mold in this lively volume, the first to be published in the new Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion and Public Life. The authors bring their faith traditions, policy experience, academic expertise, and political commitments together in this moving, pointed, and informed discussion of poverty, one of our most vexing public issues. Mary Jo Bane writes of her experiences running social service agencies, work that has been informed by "Catholic social teaching, and a Catholic sensibility that is shaped every day by prayer and worship." Policy analysis, she writes, is often "indeterminate" and "inconclusive." It requires grappling with "competing values that must bebalanced.", It demands judgment calls, and Bane's Catholic sensibility informs the calls she makes. Drawing from various Christian traditions, Lawrence Mead's essay discusses the role of nurturing Christian virtues and personal responsibility as a means of transforming a "defeatist culture" and combating poverty. Quoting Shelley, Mead describes theologians as the "unacknowledged legislators of mankind" and argues that even nonbelievers can look to the Christian tradition as "the crucible that formed the moral values of modern politics." Bane emphasizes the social justice claims of her tradition, and Mead challenges the view of many who see economic poverty as a biblical priority that deserves"preference ahead of other social concerns." But both assert that an engagement with religious traditions is indispensable to an honest and searching debate about poverty, policy choices, and the public purposes of religion.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction / E.J. Dionne Jr., Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Kayla M. Drogosz -- A Catholic policy analyst looks at poverty / Mary Jo Bane -- A biblical response to poverty / Lawrence M. Mead -- A reply to Mead / Mary Jo Bane -- A reply to Bane / Lawrence M. Mead -- Personal responsibility means social responsibility / Mary Jo Bane -- Guarantee work rather than aid / Lawrence M. Mead.".
• catalog extent "xii, 179 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Lifting up the poor.".
• catalog identifier "0815707916 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Lifting up the poor.".
• catalog isPartOf "The Pew Forum dialogues on religion and public life".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press,".
• catalog relation "Lifting up the poor.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "261.8/325 22".
• catalog subject "Church and social problems United States.".
• catalog subject "HV91 .B25 2003".
• catalog subject "Poor United States.".
• catalog subject "Poverty Biblical teaching.".
• catalog subject "Poverty Religious aspects.".
• catalog subject "Public welfare United States.".
• catalog subject "Social justice United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / E.J. Dionne Jr., Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Kayla M. Drogosz -- A Catholic policy analyst looks at poverty / Mary Jo Bane -- A biblical response to poverty / Lawrence M. Mead -- A reply to Mead / Mary Jo Bane -- A reply to Bane / Lawrence M. Mead -- Personal responsibility means social responsibility / Mary Jo Bane -- Guarantee work rather than aid / Lawrence M. Mead.".
• catalog title "Lifting up the poor : a dialogue on religion, poverty & welfare reform / Mary Jo Bane, Lawrence M. Mead.".
• catalog type "text".