Work Out Your Salvation: A Theology of Markets and Moral Formation

In Work Out Your Salvation, D. Glenn Butner Jr. demonstrates that participation in markets forms our moral character, perceptions, actions, and ideas. He argues that the nature of such formation varies based on the design of the market and our interactions within it. How, he asks, does formation of the market relate to the formation of grace—illumination, justification, and sanctification? Are these forces at war for our souls?

Through a detailed analysis of these three doctrines and the th...