Economy of Grace
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Economy of Grace
Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism? University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner offers here a serious and creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and behavior through a theological lens.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800637743
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 172
- Publication Date June 17, 2005
Endorsements
"This is the kind of book that prompts important and sustained argument. Tanner unrelentingly sets God's grace off from marker assumptions and yet does not attempt to generate a new economy apart from the workings of the present system. In fact, the startling claim is that the world capitalist system can benefit from 'theological economy.' Tanner's arguments about unconditonal giving, non-competitive economic relations, and turning private goods into public goods will stimulate a wide-ranging debate from congregations that are struggling to rethink stewardship to the world regulatory organizations seeking a more humane globalization. It is a 'must read.'"
— M. Douglas Meeks, Vanderbilt University
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
- An Economy of Grace?
- Imagining Alternatives to the Present Economic System
- Putting a Theological Economy to Work
What Has Christianity to Do with Economics
Money Means Grace and Grace Means Money
The Dangers of Semantic Analysis
The Pros and Cons of a Formal Analysis
The Potential for Noncompetitiveness
An Economically Irrelevant Pipe Dream?
Theological Economy's Response to Capitalism
Capitalist Exchange and Exclusive Property
Locke, Inalienable Property, and Loan
Grace, Gift Exchange, and the Freely Given Gift
An Economy of Grace
The Challenge of a Theological Economy
The Significance of Economic Interdependence