Morality in the Marketplace

Paul van Geest, Ph.D, is Professor of Economics and Theology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Professor of Church History and History of Theology at Tilburg University and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at KU Leuven

• 1 Introduction2 The Relationship between Economics and Theology as Scientific Disciplines through the Ages1How God Appeared in the Economy (and Economics) of Antiquity, Judaism and Early Christianity1.1Excursus: An Attempt at Economic Exegesis2Market and Morality in the Works of Church Fathers3Economics as a Component of Theology in Scholasticism4Market, Morality and Anthropology during the Reformation and Counter Reformation5How God Disappeared from the Economy3 Theology as a Coldshouldered Participant in Economic Discussion1Preamble: Religion and Economy or Theology and Economy?2The Course of History as a Prelude to the Disqualification of Theology3The Irrelevance of Theological Sources4The Epistemological Assumptions of Economic and Theological Research5Developments in Theology4 Towards a Mutual Rapprochement between Economics and Theology: A First Sketch1Introduction: Theological Economics or Economic Theology?2Criticism of the homo economicus, a Prelude to Interdisciplinarity3The Drive for Insight into Motives as a Second Prelude4The Complementarity of the Economic and Theological Views on Nature and Exhaustibility5 The Indispensability of Theology for Enriching Economic Concepts1Introduction2The Economy and Community Building. Luigino Bruni on Gratuity and Augustine’s Doctrine of Grace3The Economy, Probabilities and Uncertainty. Bart Nooteboom on Trust and the Theological Notion of pistis4The homo economicus as a Threat to Social Cohesion. Samuel Bowles on ‘Outcrowding’ of Morally Responsible Behavior and Augustine on timor servilis and amor castus5Taking Stock6 Economic Notions Seen in the Light of the History of Theology1Introduction2Negative and Affective Theology as a Prelude to a Deeper Insight into Bounded Rationality3Theological Anthropology as a Source of Insight into Bounded Morality4Bounded Willpower Explained in the Light of the Theology of Grace5Bonus: The Relationship between Happiness as an Economic Variable and Temperance as a ‘Theological’ VirtueEpilogue1Market, Model, Morality and Anthropology2Language and Reflection on Economic Processes3Conclusion: Keynes’s Take on the Economist and the TheologianBibliographyPrimary SourcesSecondary SourcesIndex