Wilco de Vries Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 2 (2022): #-# Publication history17 November 2022 (first view) The wound out of which Love Does Not Seek Its Own was born is increasing economic inequality. In New Zealand, where Jonathan D. Ryan is a Presbyterian minister, the income gap between rich andContinue reading “Review of Love Does Not Seek Its Own: Augustine, Economic Division, and the Formation of a Common Life”
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Value and the Market’s (Dis)Order: Market Prices as a Theological Problem in Patristic Thought and the Value Theory of Peter of John Olivi
Ida Simonsson Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 2 (2022): #-# AbstractThis article analyzes prices and value as constituting a theological problem in early and medieval Christian thought. First, it looks at the patristic critique of wealth and market prices and shows that such critique was rooted in a concern with aContinue reading “Value and the Market’s (Dis)Order: Market Prices as a Theological Problem in Patristic Thought and the Value Theory of Peter of John Olivi”
Volatility and Foresight: Risk, Derivatives, and Kierkegaard’s Christian Discourses
Andrew Swann Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 2 (2022): #-# AbstractThis essay explores the use of financial instruments and the way such instruments discipline actors to envisage time, the future, and its possibilities. Through the construction of a contrastive theological account of futurity, using the Christian Discourses of the Danish theologian-philosopherContinue reading “Volatility and Foresight: Risk, Derivatives, and Kierkegaard’s Christian Discourses”
The Logic of Wasteful Production
Tong Zhang Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 2 (2022): #-# AbstractEconomic neoliberalism promises social efficiency with self-interested participants and free competition. This doctrine is challenged by the extensive production of wasteful goods and services in the contemporary West. By studying three types of wasteful production—conspicuous goods, conspicuous profession, and information overproduction—Continue reading “The Logic of Wasteful Production”
Review of Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought
A. M. C. Waterman Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 1 (2022): 17-20 Published26 April 2022 (first view)20 May 2022 This book is less than the sum of its parts. Most of its authors are distinguished students of Roman Catholic social doctrine, with influential publications in philosophy, law, finance, business, economics, religion,Continue reading “Review of Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought”
Review of Divine Accounting: Theo-Economics in Early Christianity
Thomas R. Blanton IV Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 1 (2022): 21-27 Published26 April 2022 (first view)20 May 2022 Pierre Bourdieu makes two salient observations concerning the topic of “religion” (or theology) and the “economy.” First, from the side of “religion”: “For obvious reasons, symbolic goods are spontaneously located by ordinaryContinue reading “Review of Divine Accounting: Theo-Economics in Early Christianity”
Review of Morality in the Marketplace: Reconciling Theology and Economics
Albino Barrera Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 1 (2022): 13-15 Published25 April 2022 (first view)20 May 2022 One suggestion I would have made during the editing and production of this work is to change its main title. “Morality in the Marketplace” most likely gives browsers the impression that the book isContinue reading “Review of Morality in the Marketplace: Reconciling Theology and Economics”
Review of The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market
Stefan Schwarzkopf Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 1 (2022): 9-11 Published25 April 2022 (first view)20 May 2022 Scholarship in economic theology typically speaks of capitalism as a system of faith in markets. The literature mostly deals with consumer and financial markets when it castigates this secular faith. Banks then appear asContinue reading “Review of The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market”
Review of The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment
Maxime Menuet Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 1 (2022): 5-8 Published07 February 2022 (first view)20 May 2022 The Spirit of French Capitalism by Charly Coleman is an attempt to investigate some connection between French Catholicism and the economic sphere in the 17th and 18th centuries. Coleman’s thesis is that the “master-ideasContinue reading “Review of The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment”
Review of Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition
Martin Schlag Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 1 (2022): 1-4 Published12 November 2021 (first view)20 May 2022 In my Italian review of the Dizionario di economia civile (Bruni and Zamagni 2009), I argued for the inclusion of Thomas Aquinas among the intellectual forerunners of the civil economy tradition. My conviction wasContinue reading “Review of Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition”