The Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology

The Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology
Author: Stefan Schwarzkopf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351973614

This Handbook introduces and systematically explores the thesis that the economy, economic practices and economic thought are of a profoundly theological nature. Containing more than 40 chapters, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art reference work that offers students, researchers and policymakers an introduction to current scholarship, significant debates and emerging research themes in the study of the theological significance of economic concepts and the religious underpinnings of economic practices in a world that is increasingly dominated by financiers, managers, forecasters, market-makers and entrepreneurs. This Handbook brings together scholars from different parts of the world, representing various disciplines and intellectual traditions. It covers the development of economic thought and practices from antiquity to neoliberalism, and it provides insight into the economic–theological teachings of major religious movements. The list of contributors combines well-established scholars and younger academic talents. The chapters in this Handbook cover a wide array of conceptual, historical, theoretical and methodological issues and perspectives, such as the economic meaning of theological concepts (e.g. providence and faith); the theological underpinnings of economic concepts (e.g. credit and property); the religious significance of socio-economic practices in various organizational fields (e.g. accounting and work); and finally the genealogy of the theological–economic interface in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and in the discipline of economics itself (e.g. Marx, Keynes and Hayek). The Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology is organized in four parts: • Theological concepts and their economic meaning • Economic concepts and their theological anchoring • Society, management and organization • Genealogy of economic theology

Divine Economy

Divine Economy
Author: D. Stephen Long
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134588879

What has theology to do with economics? They are both sciences of human action, but have traditionally been treated as very separate disciplines. Divine Economy is the first book to address the need for an active dialogue between the two. D. Stephen Long traces three strategies which have been used to bring theology to bear on economic questions: the dominant twentieth-century tradition, of Weber's fact-value distinction; an emergent tradition based on Marxist social analysis; and a residual tradition that draws on an ancient understanding of a functional economy. He concludes that the latter approach shows the greatest promise because it refuses to subordinate theological knowledge to autonomous social-scientific research. Divine Economy will be welcomed by those with an interest in how theology can inform economic debate.

No Rising Tide

No Rising Tide
Author: Joerg Rieger
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 145141112X

Economics has always had a moral dimension; even free-market mascot Adam Smith was a Christian minister. Yet recent events have renewed and recast theological reflection on the economy as the gospel of prosperity succumbs to large-scale economic crisis. In that light Joerg Rieger explores the many dimensions of today's economic crisis. What are the fundamental shifts taking place in the global economy today, and how are they affecting provision for basic human needs, economic equity, and people's prospects?

The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics
Author: Paul Oslington
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199729719

The new interdisciplinary field of Christianity and economics deals with the important and difficult questions that cluster at the boundary of these disciplines, drawing on contemporary theory and empirical findings in both fields, with roots in older discourses. This landmark volume surveys the field and advances the discussion. It deploys historical, economic, and theological analysis to search for answers.

Christian Theology and Market Economics

Christian Theology and Market Economics
Author: Ian Rainy Lance Harper
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This unique work has a historical time-span reaching from Aristotle to the modern day, thus appealing to those interested in the history of ideas and economic thought as well as the links between theological and economic thought.

The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Author: Daniel M. Jr. Bell
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441240411

In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy. Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in terms of how desire is shaped, he casts the conflict as one between different disciplines of desire. He engages the work of two important postmodern philosophers, Deleuze and Foucault, to illuminate the nature of the postmodern world that the church currently inhabits. Bell then considers how the global economy deforms desire in a manner that distorts human relations with God and one another. In contrast, he presents Christianity and the tradition of the works of mercy as a way beyond capitalism and socialism, beyond philanthropy and welfare. Christianity heals desire, renewing human relations and enabling communion with God.

Economics in Christian Perspective

Economics in Christian Perspective
Author: Victor V. Claar
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830899901

Victor Claar and Robin Klay introduce students to the basic principles of economics and then evaluate the principles and issues as seen from a Christian perspective. This textbook places the economic life in the context of Christian discipleship and stewardship. This text is for use in any course needing a survey of the principles of economics.

Economics as Religion

Economics as Religion
Author: Robert H. Nelson
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2015-06-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0271066199

Robert Nelson’s Reaching for Heaven on Earth, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America read almost like a trilogy, exploring and charting the boundaries of theology and economics from the Western foundations of ancient Greece through the traditions that Nelson identifies as “Protestant” and “Roman,” and on into modern economic forms such as Marxism and capitalism, as well as environmentalism. Nelson argues that economics can be a genuine form of religion and that it should inform our understanding of the religious developments of our times. This edition of Economics as Religion situates the influence of his work in the scholarly economic and theological conversations of today and reflects on the state of the economics profession and the potential implications for theology, economics, and other social sciences.

Reaching for Heaven on Earth

Reaching for Heaven on Earth
Author: Robert Henry Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This critically acclaimed book concludes that economics is a modern theology, offering its own brand of human salvation through the elimination of scarcity. An in-depth study of the history of economic thought.--Library Journal. Foreword by Donald N. McCloskey.