Theology and Economics
Title | Theology and Economics PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Kidwell |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-10-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781137552235 |
This volume brings together a prominent group of Christian economists and theologians to provide an interdisciplinary look at how we might use the tools of economic and theological reasoning to cultivate more just and moral economies for the 21st century.
The Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology
Title | The Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology PDF eBook |
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
The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Oslington |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 656 |
Release | 2014-01-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199389535 |
Many important contemporary debates cross economics and religion, in turn raising questions about the relationship between the two fields. This book, edited by a leader in the new interdisciplinary field of economics and religion and with contributions by experts on different aspects of the relationship between economics and Christianity, maps the current state of scholarship and points to new directions for the field. It covers the history of the relationship between economics and Christianity, economic thinking in the main Christian traditions, and the role of religion in economic development, as well as new work on the economics of religious behavior and religious markets and topics of debate between economists and theologians. It is essential reading for economists concerned with the foundations of their discipline, historians, moral philosophers, theologians seeking to engage with economics, and public policy researchers and practitioners.
Divine Economy
Title | Divine Economy PDF eBook |
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.
Economics as Religion
Title | Economics as Religion PDF eBook |
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.
No Rising Tide
Title | No Rising Tide PDF eBook |
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?
Christian Theology and Market Economics
Title | Christian Theology and Market Economics PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Rainy Lance Harper |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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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.