Table of Contents

Endorsements vii Foreword Larry Rasmussen xi Acknowledgments xiii Opening Words xvii 1. Introduction 1 2. Moral Crisis, Context, Call 23 3. Structural Violence as Structural Evil 49 4. Unmasking Evil That Parades as Good 81 5. Countering Moral Oblivion 111 6. Theological Seeds of Hope and Power 135 7. Love: Mystery and Practical Reality 163 8. Love: Ecological and Economic Vocation 195 9. Love's Moral Framework 237 10. Love in Action: Resistance and Rebuilding 269 Closing Words 299 Index 301

About the Author

Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda is professor of theological and social ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and Graduate Theological Union. She is founding director of the PLTS Center for Climate Justice and Faith. The author of numerous books, including Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress, 2013), Moe-Lobeda is the editor of Fortress Press's Building a Moral Economy series.