The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics [Hardcover]

Many important contemporary debates cross economics and religion, in turn raising questions about the relationship between the two fields. This book, edited by a leader in the new interdisciplinary field of economics and religion and with contributions by experts on different aspects of the relationship between economics and Christianity, maps the current state of scholarship and points to new directions for the field. It covers the history of the relationship between economics and Christianity, economic thinking in the main Christian traditions, and the role of religion in economic development, as well as new work on the economics of religious behavior and religious markets and topics of debate between economists and theologians. It is essential reading for economists concerned with the foundations of their discipline, historians, moral philosophers, theologians seeking to engage with economics, and public policy researchers and practitioners.

List of Contributors

Introduction
Paul Oslington

Part A: Historical Relationships between Economics and Christian Theology
1. Economics in the Christian Scriptures, M. Douglas Meeks
2. Economics in the Church Fathers, Hennie Stander
3. Voluntary Exchange and Coercion in Scholastic Economics, Odd Langholm
4. Economics and Theology in Italy since the 18th Century, Luigino Bruni and Stefano Zamagni
5. From the Foundation of Liberal Political Economy to its Critique: Theology and Economics in France in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Gilbert Faccarello
6. Theology and the Rise of Political Economy in Britain in the 18th and 19th Centuries, A.M.C. Waterman
7. Economics and Theology in Europe from the 19th Century: From Early 19th Century's Christian Political Economy to Modern Catholic Social Doctrine, Pedro Teixeira and Ant??nio Almodovar
8. Economics and Theology after the Separation, Ross B. Emmett

Part B: Contemporary Theological Economics