Faithful Exchange
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Faithful Exchange

The Economy as It's Meant to Be

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Faithful Exchange

The Economy as It's Meant to Be

About this book

Debates about capitalism versus socialism reflect a deep divide in American society, in both the broader culture and the church. While those attracted to liberation theology, radical orthodoxy, and some kinds of Anabaptist theologies support forms of socialism, many others continue to believe capitalism is the best real-world option.

Among serious theologians as well as at the popular level, the debate suffers from misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of how different economic systems function and how those systems relate to higher ethical and legal principles. These misunderstandings and mischaracterizations, in turn, fuel overly confident pronouncements about what the biblical witness and the Christian tradition say about possible forms of economic life.

Faithful Exchange offers a careful review of the biblical and historical materials and a critical appraisal of the current debate. The book does not recommend either capitalism or socialism as a preferred form of economic order but, rather, suggests perspectives from Christian theology that provide both prophetic critique of and missional engagement with various economic structures in cultural and historical context.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. A Synoptic Overview
  9. 2. The Economy of the Biblical Narrative, Movement One: Creation to Babel
  10. 3. From the Patriarchs to the Exodus
  11. 4. The Economy of the Biblical Narrative, Movement Two: Judges, Kingship, and Prophetic Critique
  12. 5. The Economy of the Biblical Narratives, Movement Three: Jesus and the New Testament
  13. 6. Christian Thought on Property and Economics from Rome to Reformation
  14. 7. Influences on the American Fusion of Liberty and Capitalism: Locke, Hobbes, Hume, Blackstone, and Smith
  15. 8. Radical Revolution, Marxism, and Christian Socialism
  16. 9. The Great Depression, The Postwar Settlement, and Law and Economics
  17. 10. Toward a Contemporary Constructive Christian Economics
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index