... of Christianity. By Robert B. Ekelund, Robert Hébert, and Robert Tollison. MIT Press, 2006. 355 pp. $29.95. As Laurence Iannoccone (1998) pointed out in a fi ne introduction to the subject, the economics of religion may have gotten off to a slow start, but ever since the publica- tion of Corry Azzi...

...Donald E. Frey The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics . Edited by Oslington Paul . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . xvi ; 640 pp. £100.00 . Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews Reinterpreting the Keynesian Revolution. By Robert...

... questions of His day, Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity, Vol. 8. By Douglas E. Oakman. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mel- len Press, 1986. Pp. 319. This is the publication of a revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation, originally submitted to the Graduate Theological Union...

... with William Wilberforce to assemble the “Clapham sect.” This group of evangelical Christians pressed the cause of Christ in all manner of venues, most prominently in seeking to end the slave trade and in working to repatriate freed slaves to Africa. Thornton served on numerous committees working...

...- tions. These are irreconcilable interpretations, and the truth is proba- bly somewhere in between. That the Christian Fathers regarded this world and its goods with contempt, as a world corrupted in its nature by sin, has often been claimed, but has also often been denied, on the basis...

.... Barry Gordon, University of Newcastle, New South Wales Revolution, Economics and Religion: Christian Political Economy 1798-1833. By A. M. C. Waterman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi, 310 pp. $49.50. This is a clearly structiired and well-written book on the sort...

...). Athens: Apostolic Deacony of the Church of Greece. Dawkins , R. 1976 . The Selfish Gene. Greek translation by L. Margaritis and A. Tsoukaladakes. Athens: Katoptro. Geanakoplos , D. 1980 . St. Basil, Christian Humanist of the Three Hierarchs and Patron Saint of Greek Letters Greek...

... by Duke University Press Lending at interest: some Jewish, Greek, and Christian approaches, 800 BC-AD I 00 Barry Gordon And in another great lake full of pus and blood and boiling mire stood men and women up to their knees. And these were...

...) was supposed to be compatible with Christian belief and of service to Newtonian natural theology. This changed suddenly in 1798. Thomas Robert Malthus's first Essay inaugurated “economics” (the study of scarcity), seemingly incompatible with the Christian religion. Richard Whately's distinction between...

... no longer be found in traditional Christian beliefs, it had to be sought either through reinterpreting these beliefs or looking elsewhere. Tawney turned to Christian socialism, remaining within the Church of England, and Hobson turned to the Ethical Movement, but both were seeking ethical judgments...

...” as an independent sphere that had already been created through developments such as the commoditization of time. The result of such commoditization is that modern economics becomes antagonistic to Christianity as it reframes human interaction within a system of exchange that ensures time is money. For Christians...

...Xuan Zhao Abstract This article argues that Prussian industrialization policies implemented by Peter Beuth and Christian Rother from 1820 to 1848 worked as a kind of cameralism in practice. This argument is supported by two main points: first, Beuth, the primary Prussian industrialization promoter...

... of a socioeconomic commitment in Dutch Réveil circles, the influence of Thomas Chalmers's Christian political economy on the antirevolutionary statesman Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, and the place of economics in Kuyper's neo-Calvinist worldview. It is shown that Groen van Prinsterer's desire to infuse economic...

... Kant or Bentham, but virtue ethics has recently come back. From the Seven Primary Virtues, Smith chose five to admire especially. He chose all four of the pagan and stoic virtues of courage, temperance, justice, and prudence. To these he added, as virtue number five, a part of the Christian virtue...

...,” the most powerful and intellectually the richest Christian movement in the French Enlightenment, this article shows that religion played a pivotal role in the emergence of French political economy. Having established the theoretical richness of the movement, this article aims to show, through two case...

.... In subsequent editions, the simple, ecological model gives way to a sophisticated general model of a commercial society with property rights, the rule of law, marriage laws similar to those of the British Christian tradition, and expanded markets. The result was not the “dismal” prognostication that Malthus...

..., F-42023 Saint-Etienne, France; email: [email protected] . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Keywords socialism utopian socialism bible Christianity slogans References Anonymous . 1831a . “ Mysticisme constitutionnel .” Le Globe 7 , no. 114...

... , Martin . 1973 . The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–1950 . Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Johnson , 1976 . A History of Christianity . New York: Atheneum. Kegley , Charles W. , and Robert W. Bretall 1952...

..., as well as those of the participants in the American Religious History seminar at Princeton University. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References Abbott Lyman . 1900 . The Evolution of Christianity . Boston : Houghton Mifflin . Adams Henry Carter . 1886...