Divine Economy: Theology and the Market

Divine Economyis 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.

D. Stephen Long is assistant professor of theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(6)

PART I The dominant tradition: market values

7

(74)

Introduction to Part I

9

(4)

The Weberian strategy: theology's importance as value, ethos, or spirit

13

(22)

Novak's Catholicism and capitalism, rightly understood

14

(2)

The adversarial elitist conspiracy: ressentiment

16

(3)

The formal spirit of liberty and J. S. Mill as a Thomist

19

(2)

Max Stackhouse: religious metaphysical--moral foundations

21

(8)

Ronald Preston and the ambiguous contribution of theology to economics

29

(2)

Philip Wogaman's theological economics: the facts and values of Christian economics

31

(4)

An anthropology of liberty constrained by original sin: theology as analogia libertatis

35

(9)

Novak on liberty and co-creation

35

(3)

The limitations imposed by original sin

38

(1)

Dennis McCann: Niebuhrian realism over liberation utopianism

39

(5)

The subordination of Christology and ecclesiology to the doctrine of creation

44

(22)

Novak's Christological limitation

44

(6)

The formal substitutability of the Church in Stackhouse's cosmopolitan ethics

50

(6)

Ecclesiology implicitly subordinated to the state: Preston's ambiguity

56

(7)

Grace without the New law of the Gospel: Wogaman's subordination of Christology to liberty

63

(3)

Conclusion to Part I

66

(15)

PART II The emergent tradition: the protest of the oikos and the polis

81

(94)

Introduction to Part II

83

(5)

Marxism as a theological strategy to relate theology to economics

88

(30)

Dialectical materialism or a dialectic of martyrdom?

90

(2)

Marxism or marginalism, does theology matter?

92

(10)

Slavery, capitalism, and resistance

102

(6)

Rosemary Radford Ruether: the wickedness of capitalism and the protest of the oikos

108

(3)

Gustavo Gutierrez: the protest of the poor and modern freedoms

111

(3)

Sobrino's dialectic: the crucifixion, Marxism, and geography

114

(2)

James Cone's black theology: Marx, class, and limitations

116

(2)

The subordination of theology to metaphysics: eschatology, ecclesiology, and the reign of God

118

(25)

Historical liberation -- liberation from the historical

118

(5)

Radical eschatology, or the quest for cosmopolis?

123

(3)

Ecclesiology and the supernatural existential

126

(4)

Gutierrez on ecclesiology

130

(4)

Sobrino on ecclesiology

134

(5)

Theological and natural virtues displaced

139

(4)

Scarcity, orthodoxy, and heresy

143

(29)

Theological, economic, and postmodern scarcity

143

(8)

Universality as ordering theological discourse: the embrace of death

151

(2)

Critical reflection on praxis and on theological language

153

(5)

Jon Sobrino's protest of the polis: Christology, ecclesiology, and holiness

158

(1)

James Cone: the courage to be and the protest of the black church

159

(4)

Contingent truths of history and the philosopher's protest

163

(9)

Conclusion to Part II

172

(3)

PART III The residual tradition: virtues and the true, the good, and the beautiful

175

(96)

Introduction to Part III

177

(5)

A true economic order

182

(36)

Catholic and Anglican social teaching and its failure: the non-necessity of theology for reading the natural

182

(3)

Leo XIII, the holy family, and economics

185

(3)

Modernity, the tradition of economic liberalism, and the role of church and family

188

(7)

Bernard Dempsey and a theological economics

195

(8)

Institutional usury

203

(6)

The natural and the theological

209

(6)

The old and New law

215

(3)

Theology and the good

218

(23)

The contemporary vision of an a-rational inheritance

219

(4)

Morality and theology as private value preference

223

(2)

The functional economy

225

(7)

The church's virtues

232

(5)

The just ordering of commands

237

(4)

The beauty of theology: uniting the true and the good, and subordinating the useful

241

(20)

John Milbank's particular narration of dialectic

242

(3)

Milbank, Kant, Marx, and liberation theology

245

(5)

Christological poetics and the primacy of ecclesiology

250

(8)

Capitalism as heresy

258

(3)

Conclusion

261

(10)

Speaking of God

262

(3)

Speaking of the church

265

(6)

Notes

271

(46)

Index

317

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