Divine Economy

<p>What has theology to do with economics? They are both sciences of human action but have traditionally been treated as very separate disciplines. <em>Divine Economy</em> is the first book to address the need for an active dialogue between the two.<br>D. Stephen Long traces three strategies which have been used to bring theology to bear on economic questions: the dominant twentieth-century tradition of Weber's fact-value distinction; an emergent tradition based on Marxist social analysis; and a residual tradition that draws on an ancient understanding of a functional economy. He concludes that the latter approach shows the greatest promise because it refuses to subordinate theological knowledge to autonomous social-scientific research.<br><em>Divine Economy</em> will be welcomed by those with an interest in how theology can inform economic debate.</p>