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Economy of Grace »

Authors: Kathryn Tanner
ISBN-13: 9780800637743, ISBN-10: 0800637747
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Kathryn Tanner

Book Synopsis

"As international economic change accelerates and globalization becomes inevitable, Christians and others have asked: Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism?" University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner answers affirmatively in this creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and a practical program for change. She finds in the Christian story an 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 a very different type of economy.

1	An economy of grace?	1
	What has Christianity to do with economics	2
	Money means grace and grace means money	6
	The dangers of semantic analysis	8
	The pros and cons of a formal analysis	10
	The potential for noncompetitiveness	22
	An economically irrelevant pipe dream?	28
2	Imaging alternatives to the present economic system	31
	Theological economy's response to capitalism	32
	Capitalist exchange and exclusive property	34
	Locke, inalienable property, and loan	40
	Grace, gift exchange, and the freely given gift	47
	An economy of grace	62
3	Putting a theological economy to work	87
	The challenge of a theological economy	89
	The significance of economic interdependence	92
	Welfare and unconditional giving	99
	Capitalist competition and the principle of noncompetitiveness	105
	Non-marketable goods and noncompetitive possession and use	129
	The will for change	140