A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics. By Hans Kung (English translation by John Bowden). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvii + 315 pp. $32.50 (cloth).

It is by now a cliche-not less true for that fact-that the planet is "shrinking," meaning that formerly remote world events hold increasing potential to affect people elsewhere. This review, for instance, is being written on the day when news reports announce major bomb attacks upon U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam-the one in Kenya and the other a Tanzania Indian Ocean seaport-and the consternation ...

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