Economy of Grace

Name: Economy of Grace
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ISBN: 9780800637743

ISBN-10: 0800637747

ISBN-13: 9780800637743

Edition: 2005

Authors: Kathryn Tanner

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As international economic change accelerates and globalization becomes inevitable, Christians and others have questioned the equity and justice of the emerging global economy. 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. She finds in the Christian story a strong and unyielding concern with economic matters and specific principles of economics and economic justice that can be brought into conversation with global capitalism today. At the heart of that story is the reality of God's gift of grace, a noncompetitive relationship that models…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 6/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 5.58" wide x 8.52" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



An Economy of Grace?


What Has Chirstianity 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?



Imagining Alternatives to the Present Economic System


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



Putting a Theological Economy to Work


The Challenge of a Theological Economy


The Significance of Economic Interdependence


Welfare and Unconditional Giving


Capitalist Competition and the Principle of Noncompetitiveness


Non-Marketable Goods and Noncompetitive Possession and Use


The Will for Change


Notes


Index