Download or read book Political Economy as Natural Theology written by Paul Oslington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 20th century, economics has been the dominant discourse in English-speaking countries, displacing Christian theology from its previous position of authority. This path-breaking book is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary dialogue between economics and religion. Oslington tells the story of natural theology shaping political economy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, emphasising continuing significance of theological issues for the discipline of economics. Early political economists such as Adam Smith, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke, William Paley, TR Malthus, Richard Whately, JB Sumner, Thomas Chalmers and William Whewell, extended the British scientific natural theology tradition of Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton to the social world. This extension nourished and shaped political economy as a discipline, influencing its theoretical framework, but perhaps more importantly helping legitimate political economy in the British universities and public policy circles. Educating the public in the principles of political economy had a central place in this religiously driven program. Natural theology also created tensions (especially reconciling economic suffering with divine goodness and power) that eventually contributed to its demise and the separation of economics from theology in mid-19th-century Britain. This volume highlights aspects of the story that are neglected in standard histories of economics, histories of science and contemporary theology. Political Economy as Natural Theology is essential reading for all concerned with the origins of economics, the meaning and purpose of economic activity and the role of religion in contemporary policy debates.

Download or read book Political Economy and Christian Theology Since the Enlightenment written by A. Waterman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political economy and Christian theology coexisted happily in the intellectual world of the eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century they came to be seen as incompatible, even mutually hostile. In the twentieth century they went their separate ways and are no longer on speaking terms. These fourteen essays by Anthony Waterman serve as snapshots of the history of this estrangement, and illustrate the gradual replacement of the discourse of theology by that of economics as the rational framework of political debate. Others have recently shown that both political economy and Christian theology are important, though somewhat neglected elements in modern intellectual history. This book is the first to combine these two lines of inquiry.

Download or read book Revolution Economics and Religion written by Anthony Michael C. Waterman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Waterman analyses the story of the 'intellectual repulse of revolution', and describes the ideological alliance of political economy and Christian theology after 1798.

Download or read book Introductory Lectures on Political Economy Being Part of a Course Delivered in Easter Term MDCCCXXXI written by Richard Whately and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introductory Lectures on Political Economy written by Richard Whately and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Theory and Natural Philosophy written by Charles Michael Andres Clark and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to shed light on the development of economic thought and in particular on elements of continuity and divergence. The text provides insights into Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Victorian evolutionary social theory, and axiomatic general equilibrium theory.

Download or read book Divine Economy written by D. Stephen Long and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has theology to do with economics? This first book to address the question directly will be welcomed by all those with an interest in exploring how theology can inform economic debate.

Download or read book Introductory Lectures on Political Economy Introduction to political economy Lecture IX written by Richard Whately and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Lectures on Political Economy delivered before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term 1852 written by Sir George Kettilby Rickards and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Political Economy as Theodicy written by David L. Blaney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole. This book revisits the work of key figures in the history of political economy and economic thought – primarily Adam Smith, Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, W. Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall and John Bates Clark. Theodicy is a constitutive element of an international political economy (IPE) that often disavows moral evil, while it conversely redefines such evil as an actual good within economic life. Beginning with the Enlightenment thinkers and continuing through to the modern neoclasscial economists, this book traces the initial emergence of a natural theological basis for political economic thinking and concludes with a discussion of its application in modern IPE. Relying upon a postcolonial framework, the author seeks to provincialize economics, creating space for alternative modes of being and doing. This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of IPE, political theology, international relations and postcolonial studies.

Download or read book Keeping Faith Losing Faith written by Bradley W. Bateman and published by History of Political Economy. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: Religious Belief and Political Economy" considers the historical and current relationship between religious and economic schools of thought. The volume explores the integration of theology and economics that was prevalent before the twentieth century, the rise of secular neoclassical economic models in the middle of that century, and the recent trend toward examining economic behavior through the prism of religious belief. Two of the essays examine the antagonism between Christianity and utilitarianism in postrevolutionary French economics and the rising influence of the materialism of the market vis-à-vis the declining authority of the Roman Catholic Church in eighteenth-century Europe. Other topics explored include the work of the great American neoclassicist Frank Knight, the combination of utility analysis and Christian principles among the "clerical economists" in America, and the effect of a crisis of personal faith on the theories of the English philosopher and economist Henry Sidgwick.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology written by Russell Re Manning and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology" explores the diversity and vitality o natural theology, both historically and as an issue of contemporary concern.

Download or read book Critique of Earth written by Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short description: The second series of van Leeuwen's Gifford Lectures under the overall title of "Critique of Heaven and Earth," examining the young Karl Marx?

Download or read book Adam Smith as Theologian written by Paul Oslington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith wrote in a Scotland where Calvinism, Continental natural law theory, Stoic philosophy, and the Newtonian tradition of scientific natural theology were key to the intellectual lives of his contemporaries. But what impact did these ideas have on Smith’s system? What was Smith’s understanding of nature, divine providence, and theodicy? How was the new discourse of political economy positioned in relation to moral philosophy and theology? In this volume a team of distinguished contributors consider Smith’s work in relation to its Scottish Enlightenment religious background, and offer stimulating theological interpretations of his account of fallible human nature, his providential account of markets, and his invisible hand metaphor. Adam Smith as Theologian it is a pioneering study which will alter our view of Smith and open up new lines of thinking about contemporary economics.

Download or read book Political Economy written by Francis Amasa Walker and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Adam s Fallacy written by Duncan K. Foley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.