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Overview

Divine Economy is the first book to directly address the need for a closer relationship between the two areas. Theology and economics have been treated as very separate and isolated disciplines. Long seeks to answer the question, what has theology to do with economics? He explains that both theology and economics are sciences of human action. This book calls for an active dialogue between theology and economics that calls for a functional economy which doesn't subordinate theological knowledge.

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Overview

Divine Economy is the first book to directly address the need for a closer relationship between the two areas. Theology and economics have been treated as very separate and isolated disciplines. Long seeks to answer the question, what has theology to do with economics? He explains that both theology and economics are sciences of human action. This book calls for an active dialogue between theology and economics that calls for a functional economy which doesn't subordinate theological knowledge.

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Theology and economics, though both sciences of human action, have generally been treated as separate and isolated disciplines. Long (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL) traces three traditions in which attempts have been made to bring theology to bear on economic questions: the dominant 20th century tradition, which sought to give economics its independence through Weber's fact-value distinction; an emergent tradition based on the concept of liberation using a Marxist social analysis; and a residual tradition that draws on an ancient understanding of a functional economy. Long concludes that the last approach shows the greatest promise for a productive conversation between the disciplines because it refuses to subordinate or accommodate theological knowledge to autonomous socio-scientific research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780203465448
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
  • Publication date: 6/6/2000
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 336
  • Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy Series
  • File size: 1 MB

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Pt. I The dominant tradition: market values 7
The Weberian strategy: theology's importance as value, ethos, or spirit 13
An anthropology of liberty constrained by original sin: theology as analogia libertatis 35
The subordination of Christology and ecclesiology to the doctrine of creation 44
Pt. II The emergent tradition: the protest of the oikos and the polis 81
Marxism as a theological strategy to relate theology to economics 88
The subordination of theology to metaphysics: eschatology, ecclesiology, and the reign of God 118
Scarcity, orthodoxy, and heresy 143
Pt. III The residual tradition: virtues and the true, the good, and the beautiful 175
A true economic order 182
Theology and the good 218
The beauty of theology: uniting the true and the good, and subordinating the useful 241
Conclusion 261
Notes 271
Index 317

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