Commonwealth and Covenant

Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality

Marcia Pally

• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780802871046
• eBook ISBN:
  9781467444910
• Topic: Theologie & Religion
• Subtopic: Wirtschaftstheorie

  In Commonwealth and Covenant Marcia Pally argues that in order to address current socioeconomic problems, we need not more economic formulas but rather a better understanding of how the world is set up — an ontology of how we and the world work. Without this, good proposals that arise lack political will and go unimplemented.             Pally describes our basic setup as “separability-amid-situatedness” or “distinction-amid-relation.” Though we are all unique individuals, we become our singular selves through our relations and responsibilities to the people and environments around us. Pally argues that our culture’s overemphasis on “separability” — individualism run amok — results in greed, adversarial and deceitful political discourse and chicanery, resource grabbing, broken relationships, and anomie.             Maintaining that separability and situatedness can and must be considered together in public policy, Pally draws on intellectual history, philosophy, and — especially — historic Christian and Jewish theologies of relationality to construct a new framework for addressing present economic and political ills.
 

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Separability-amid-Situatedness: An Ontology
• 1. An Introduction to Separability, Situatedness, and the Two Together
• 2. Separability and Situatedness: Defining the Terms
• 3. Separability and Situatedness in Mutual Constitution — an Ontology
• 4. Those Claimed for Separability — and Their (Sometimes Ignored) Constitution with Situatedness: A Few Examples
• 5. Those Claimed for Situatedness — and Their (Sometimes Ignored) Constitution with Separability: A Few Examples
• 6. Concluding Thoughts on Separability and Situatedness
• Part II: Theologies of Relationality
• 1. Separability-amid-Situatedness or Distinction-amid-Relation in Theological Voice
• 2. The Separable Self in Theologies of Relationality: Covenant
• 3. The Separable Self in Theologies of Relationality: Imago Dei and Similitude
• 4. The Separable Self in Early Modern Theology: Freedom of Conscience
• 5. The Separable Self: The Reformed Tradition and Its Influence in America
• 6. Theologies of Relationality: A Few Notes from the Judaic Tradition
• 7. Distinction--amid--Relation in Trinity
• 8. Distinction--amid--Relation in the Christian Covenant: The Gift of Agape
• 9. The Christian Covenant: A Möbius StripExpressed in Baptism, Learned from Incarnation
• 10. Covenant’s Irrevocability
• 11. Grace
• 12. Crucifixion
• 13. Resurrection and Salvation
• 14. Eucharist
• 15. Communities of Covenant: The Gift of Gift Exchange
• 16. The Ethics of Relationality: Prophetic Voice, Incarnational Discipleship, Communities of Trust
• Part III: Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index of Names and Subjects