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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”

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”

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”

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”

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”