Economy of Grace

by Kathryn Tanner

Overview

Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism? University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner offers here a serious and creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and behavior through a theological lens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800637743
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	06/17/2005
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Kathryn Tanner is Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of numerous books, including Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity; Economy of Grace; Theories of Culture; and Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

An Economy of Grace?

What Has Christianity to Do with Economics

Money Means Grace and Grace Means Money

The Dangers of Semantic Analysis

The Pros and Cons of a Formal Analysis

The Potential for Noncompetitiveness

An Economically Irrelevant Pipe Dream?

Imagining Alternatives to the Present Economic System

Theological Economy's Response to Capitalism

Capitalist Exchange and Exclusive Property

Locke, Inalienable Property, and Loan

Grace, Gift Exchange, and the Freely Given Gift

An Economy of Grace

Putting a Theological Economy to Work

The Challenge of a Theological Economy

The Significance of Economic Interdependence