Political Economy As Natural Theology

Author : Paul Oslington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351686038
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Author : A. Waterman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230514502
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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 333 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.

Author : Anthony Michael C. Waterman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521394473
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Author : Richard Whately
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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:

Author : Richard Whately
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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:

Author : Charles Michael Andres Clark
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Author : Russell Re Manning
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611719
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology written by Russell Re Manning and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology is the first collection to consider the full breadth of natural theology from both historical and contemporary perspectives and to bring together leading scholars to offer accessible high-level accounts of the major themes. The volume embodies and develops the recent revival of interest in natural theology as a topic of serious critical engagement. Frequently misunderstood or polemicized, natural theology is an under-studied yet persistent and pervasive presence throughout the history of thought about ultimate reality - from the classical Greek theology of the philosophers to twenty-first-century debates in science and religion. Of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this authoritative handbook draws on the very best of contemporary scholarship to present a critical overview of the subject area. Thirty-eight new essays trace the transformations of natural theology in different historical and religious contexts, the place of natural theology in different philosophical traditions and diverse scientific disciplines, and the various cultural and aesthetic approaches to natural theology to reveal a rich seam of multi-faceted theological reflection rooted in human nature and the environments within which we find ourselves.

Author : David L. Blaney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003857752
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Author : Francis Amasa Walker
Publisher : New York : H. Holt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Political Economy written by Francis Amasa Walker and published by New York : H. Holt. This book was released on 1883 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Oslington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136721991
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Adam Smith as Theologian written by Paul Oslington and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the theological background and meaning of Smith's work. Adam Smith as Theologian gathers a group of eminent economists, historians, philosophers, and theologians to reflect on these questions, examining the extent to which even contemporary economics may contain residues of Smith's theological mores.