Miroslav Volf on Adam Smith

This is one of a series of posts developing material read for a Gordon-Conwell course on Social Justice for the efforts of Christ the King Presbyterian Church to reach out to our city.  The full index of such posts can be found here.  Critical comments are encouraged.
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One of the books I’m currently reading is Miroslav Volf’s [...]

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Sen on Smith

More on Adam Smith, this time from 1998 economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.  The full article is here at the New York Review of Books, or in condensed version here at the Financial Times (registration required).
It is… worth mentioning… especially since the “welfare state” emerged long after Smith’s own time, that in his various writings, [...]

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Theology and Social Theory, Ch. 2

Milbank’s second chapter is entitled ‘Political Economy as Theodicy and Agonistics’. Where the ‘New Science of Politics’ dealt with the origins of a secular space for power relations, political economy was more interested in how the mechanisms of power functioned. Crucially, its theory centered on the regular, unintended harmony of these mechanisms, in [...]

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