Political Economy and Christian Theology Since the Enlightenment

Essays in Intellectual History

A. Waterman

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9780230514508
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Trade & Tariffs
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Political economy and Christian theology coexisted happily in the intellectual world of the eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century they came to be seen as incompatible, even mutually hostile. In the twentieth century they went their separate ways and are no longer on speaking terms. These fourteen essays by Anthony Waterman serve as snapshots of the history of this estrangement, and illustrate the gradual replacement of the discourse of theology by that of economics as the rational framework of political debate. Others have recently shown that both political economy and Christian theology are important, though somewhat neglected elements in modern intellectual history. This book is the first to combine these two lines of inquiry.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Political Economy and Christian Theology
• 2 Why the English “Enlightenment” Was Different
• 3 Theology and Political Doctrine in Church and Dissent
• 4 Intellectual Foundations of Tory Doctrine
• 5 A Cambridge “Via Media”
• 6 Wealth of Nations as Theology
• 7 The Sudden Separation of Political Economy
• 8 Methodology of Classical Political Economy
• 9 Peasants, Population and Progress
• 10 Property Rights in Christian Social Teaching
• 11 The Intellectual Context of Rerum Novarum
• 12 Market Social Order and Christian Organicism
• 13 Establishment Social Thinking
• 14 Economics and the Mutation of Political Doctrine
• Notes
• References
• Index