Christianity - General & Miscellaneous, Economics - Religious & Moral Aspects
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Overview
Divine Economy is 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.
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Booknews
Theology and economics, though both sciences of human action, have generally been treated as separate and isolated disciplines. Long (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL) traces three traditions in which attempts have been made to bring theology to bear on economic questions: the dominant 20th century tradition, which sought to give economics its independence through Weber's fact-value distinction; an emergent tradition based on the concept of liberation using a Marxist social analysis; and a residual tradition that draws on an ancient understanding of a functional economy. Long concludes that the last approach shows the greatest promise for a productive conversation between the disciplines because it refuses to subordinate or accommodate theological knowledge to autonomous socio-scientific research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 6, 2000
Publisher
London ; Routledge, 2000.
Pages
336
ISBN
9780203465448