Divine Economy - Theology and the Market

Informationen zum Autor D. Stephen Long Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung What has theology to do with economics? This first book to address the question directly will be welcomed by all those with an interest in exploring how theology can inform economic debate. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I The dominant tradition: market values, PART II The emergent tradition: the protest of the oikos and the polis, PART III The residual tradition: virtues and the true, the good, and the beautiful, Notes, Index

Product details

• Authors: D Stephen Long, D. Stephen Long, Long D. Stephen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2000
• EAN: 9780415226721
• ISBN: 978-0-415-22672-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, Religion: general, Christianity, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity