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Political Economy and Christian Theology since the Enlightenment: Essays in Intellectual History (Studies in Modern History Series) [NOOK Book]
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These fourteen essays by Anthony Waterman serve as snapshots of the history of the estrangement of theology and political economy, and illustrate the gradual replacement of the discourse of theology by that of economics as the rational framework of political debate. Others have recently shown that both political economy and Christian theology are important, though somewhat neglected elements in modern intellectual history. This book is the first to combine these two lines of inquiry.
| 1 | Political economy and Christian theology | 1 |
| 2 | Why the English "enlightenment" was different | 16 |
| 3 | Theology and political doctrine in church and dissent | 31 |
| 4 | Intellectual foundations of Tory doctrine | 55 |
| 5 | A Cambridge "Via Media" | 70 |
| 6 | Wealth of nations as theology | 88 |
| 7 | The sudden separation of political economy | 107 |
| 8 | Methodology of classical political economy | 127 |
| 9 | Peasants, population and progress | 143 |
| 10 | Property rights in Christian social teaching | 163 |
| 11 | Intellectual context of Rerum Novarum | 179 |
| 12 | Market social order and Christian organicism | 194 |
| 13 | Establishment social thinking | 207 |
| 14 | Economics and the mutation of political doctrine | 225 |
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These fourteen essays by Anthony Waterman serve as snapshots of the history of the estrangement of theology and political economy, and illustrate the gradual replacement of the discourse of theology by that of economics as the rational framework of political debate. Others have recently shown that both political economy and Christian theology are important, though somewhat neglected elements in modern intellectual history. This book is the first to combine these two lines of inquiry.