This essay is a bi-disciplinary effort in applied ethics by a theologian and an economist who both share the convictions of the Christian faith and wish to demonstrate the significance of this faith for the vexing question of economic inequality. Following the see- judge- act- model often used in public theology, it examines first conceptual matters in order to define economic inequality and undertake a limited descriptive task to get a clearer empirical picture of what economic inequality entails. There is then a moral assessment of economic inequalities (“judge”) where ethically acceptable and objectionable aspects of inequality from the economic and theological perspectives are distinguished. From these perspectives, this essay concludes with possible interventions and actions (“act”) to reduce morally unacceptable forms of economic inequality and scope for co-operative efforts between economics and public theology in this area.

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经济不平等：对话中的经济学与神学

这篇文章是一位神学家和一位经济学家在应用伦理学方面的双学科努力，他们都拥有基督教信仰的信念，并希望证明这种信仰对经济不平等这一棘手问题的重要性。遵循公共神学中经常使用的see-judge-act-模型，它首先检查概念问题以定义经济不平等，并承担有限的描述任务，以获得更清晰的经济不平等的经验图景。然后是对经济不平等的道德评估（“法官”），从经济和神学的角度区分道德上可接受和令人反感的不平等方面。从这些角度来看，