Esa Mangeloja Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 3 (2023): ##-## AbstractThe principle of benevolence is at the root of Martin Luther’s (1483-1546) thinking on society, the economy, and business ethics. Luther was the forerunner of the moral economy. He saw the necessity of strong public authorities, which should take into account the publicContinue reading “Martin Luther’s Business Ethics and the Economic Utopia”
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Review of Robert Sirico, The Economics of the Parables
Paolo Santori Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 3 (2023): #-# Publication historyFirst view: 17 February 2023 In explaining the scarcity of encounters between the disciplines of economics and theology, the Italian economist Emanuele Sella wrote, “This is because the theological culture of economists in general is nil and the economic culture of theologiansContinue reading “Review of Robert Sirico, The Economics of the Parables”
Review of Michel Dion & Moses Pava, The Spirit of Conscious Capitalism: Contributions of World Religions and Spiritualities
Lans Bovenberg Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 2 (2022): 109-11 Publication historyPublished: 02 December 2022 Capitalism has created a great deal of material wealth. At the same time, it is losing its legitimacy for many people because it is failing to address growing inequalities, civil polarization, ecological challenges, and a growingContinue reading “Review of Michel Dion & Moses Pava, The Spirit of Conscious Capitalism: Contributions of World Religions and Spiritualities”
Review of Alina Potempa, Wie Katholiken die moderne Ökonomie entdeckten
Paul van Geest Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 2 (2022): 105-7 Publication historyPublished: 02 December 2022 In line with the basic premise of Paul Oslington’s Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics (2014) to see history as the best place to start for understanding relationships between Christianity and economics (p. 4), the author ofContinue reading “Review of Alina Potempa, Wie Katholiken die moderne Ökonomie entdeckten”
Review of Love Does Not Seek Its Own: Augustine, Economic Division, and the Formation of a Common Life
Wilco de Vries Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 2, no. 2 (2022): 101-3 Publication historyFirst view: 17 November 2022Published: 02 December 2022 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 gapContinue reading “Review of Love Does Not Seek Its Own: Augustine, Economic Division, and the Formation of a Common Life”
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): 85-100 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): 67-83 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): 51-66 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”