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Andrew Gustafson Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 3 (2023): #-# Publication historyFirst view: 7 September 2023 This helpful book argues that distributism, with its strong Catholic Social Thought foundations, has resources to contribute significantly to a common good capitalism and discussions of political economy. If this book doesn’t draw people to distributism, therebyContinue reading “Review of Alexander William Salter’s The Political Economy of Distributism”

Jamin Andreas Hubner Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 3 (2023): #-# Publication historyFirst view: 10 August 2023 Kevin Musgrave’s scholarly work Persons of the Market is difficult to summarize, much less categorize. In my own reading, it is best described as social, intellectual, and political history from the pre-Progressive Era to the ageContinue reading “Review of Kevin Musgrave’s Persons of the Market”

Stephy Joseph Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 3 (2023): #-# Publication historyFirst view: 10 August 2023 Pope Francis’s papacy has influenced many lives through his farsighted insights on humanity as a whole. Cathonomics, written by Anthony M. Annett, is the outcome of such influence, which he acknowledges in the book’s preface. Annett’s profileContinue reading “Review of Anthony M. Annett’s Cathonomics”

Jennifer A. Quigley Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, vol. 3 (2023): #-# Publication historyFirst view: 30 May 2023 One of the major themes in Richard A. Horsley’s extensive body of scholarship has been the intersection of politics, economics, and biblical studies. You Shall Not Bow Down and Serve Them: The Political Economic Projects ofContinue reading “Review of Richard A. Horsley, You Shall Not Bow Down and Serve Them”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”