Table Of ContentThe OxfO rd h andbOOk O f
C h r i s t ia n i t y
a n d EC o n o m i Cs
Consulting Editors
Michael Szenberg
Lubin School of Business, Pace University
Lall ramrattan
University of California, Berkeley Extension
The OxfOrd handbOOk Of
Christianity
and
EC onomiCs
Edited by
PauL OSLingTOn
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The Oxford handbook of Christianity and economics / edited by Paul Oslington.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–972971–5 (alk. paper)
1. Economics—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Oslington, Paul, editor of compilation.
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Contents
List of Contributors ix
Introduction xiii
Paul Oslington
Part i histori Cal rElationshiPs b EtwEEn
EC onomiCs and Christian thEology
1. economics in the Christian Scriptures 3
M. douglas Meeks
2. economics in the Church fathers 22
hennie Stander
3. Voluntary exchange and Coercion in Scholastic economics 44
Odd Langholm
4. economics and Theology in italy since the eighteenth Century 57
Luigino bruni and Stefano Zamagni
5. from the foundation of Liberal Political economy to its
Critique: Theology and economics in france in the eighteenth and
nineteenth Centuries 73
gilbert faccarello
6. Theology and the rise of Political economy in britain in the
eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries 94
a. M. C. Waterman
7. economics and Theology in europe from the nineteenth
Century: from the early nineteenth Century’s Christian Political
economy to Modern Catholic Social doctrine 113
Pedro Teixeira and antónio almodovar
8. economics and Theology after the Separation 135
ross b. emmett
vi COnTenTS
Part ii ContEmPorary thEologi Cal
EC onomiCs
9. roman Catholic economics 153
andrew Yuengert
10. anglicanism 177
kim hawtrey
11. eastern Orthodoxy’s Theology of economics 197
daniel P. Payne
12. reformed Christian economics 206
bob goudzwaard and roel Jongeneel
13. Theonomy and economic institutions 224
edd noell
14. anabaptist approaches to economics 245
James halteman
15. Pentecostal approaches to economics 263
Shane Clifton
16. interface and integration in Christian economics 282
J. david richardson
Part iii Christianity, CaPitalism, and
dEvElo PmEnt
17. Weber, Theology, and economics 307
Max L. Stackhouse
18. economic religion and environmental religion 337
robert h. nelson
19. Christianity and the Prospects for development in the global South 359
Peter S. heslam
20. faith, religion, and international development 384
katherine Marshall
21. Christianity and the global economic Order 401
Paul S. Williams
COnTenTS vii
Part iv EC onomiC analysis of rEligion
22. economic Models of Churches 421
robert Mochrie
23. The economics of religious Schism and Switching 438
T. randolph beard, robert b. ekelund, Jr., george S. ford, and
robert d. Tollison
24. Spiritual Capital 463
Theodore roosevelt Malloch
25. religious Labor Markets 472
ian Smith
26. regulation of religious Markets 489
Charles M. north
27. behavioral economics of religion 512
Jonathan h. W. Tan
Part v intErdisCiP linary ExChangEs
28. economic Justice 533
albino barrera
29. happiness 549
ben Cooper
30. usury 564
ian harper and Lachlan Smirl
31. human nature, identity, and Motivation 581
gordon Menzies and donald hay
32. gender 606
Carrie a. Miles
33. Poverty 620
Craig M. gay
Index 637
List of Contributors
antónio almodovar is Professor of the history of economic Thought at the university
of Porto.
albino barrera is Professor of economics and Theology at Providence College in
rhode island.
t. randolph beard is Professor of economics at auburn university.
luigino bruni is Professor of economics at LuMSa university in rome.
shane Clifton is director of research and head of Theology at alphacrucis College in
Sydney.
ben Cooper is Minister for Training at Christ Church fulwood, Sheffield, and was
formerly a Prize research fellow in economics at nuffield College, Oxford.
robert b. Ekelund, Jr. is eminent Scholar (emeritus) in the department of economics
at auburn university.
ross b. Emmett is Professor of Political economy and Political Theory and Constitutional
democracy at James Madison College, Michigan State university.
gilbert faccarello is Professor of economics at Panthéon-assas university in Paris and
research fellow at Triangle, École normale Supérieure de Lyon. he is co-founder and
co-editor of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
george s. ford is Chief economist at the Phoenix Center for advanced Legal and
economic Public Policy Studies in Washington, dC.
Craig m. gay is Professor of interdisciplinary Studies at regent College in Vancouver.
bob goudzwaard is emeritus Professor of economics at the free university of
amsterdam.
James halteman is emeritus Professor of economics at Wheaton College and Visiting
Professor of economics at goshen College.
ian harper is a Partner with deloitte access economics Pty Ltd and emeritus Professor
at The university of Melbourne.
Kim hawtrey is a director at biS Shrapnel in Sydney. he was previously Professor of
economics at hope College in Michigan and Macquarie university in Sydney.
