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God and the Evil of Scarcity - Moral Foundations of Economic Agency (Hardcover, New)
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God and the Evil of Scarcity - Moral Foundations of Economic Agency (Hardcover, New)
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In his celebrated Essay on Population, Thomas Malthus raised the
puzzle of why a benevolent Creator would permit material scarcity
in human existence. Albino Barrera revisits this question using
Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysics of participation and Sacred
Scripture’s invitation to covenant fidelity and kingdom
discipleship as analytical lenses with which to examine the seeming
incongruity of scarcity in God’s providence. Barrera concludes
that scarcity turns out to be a signal opportunity for economic
agency to receive, internalize, and communicate God’s goodness
and righteousness within the human community. Written for
theologians, philosophers, social scientists, and policymakers
interested in the theological and philosophical foundations of
economics, this study argues that precarious, subsistence living is
not an immutable law of nature. Rather, such a chronic, dismal
condition reflects personal and collective moral failure. In this
carefully researched study, Barrera argues that scarcity serves as
an occasion for God to provide for us through each other and that
there are strong metaphysical and scriptural warrants for enacting
progressive social policies for a better sharing of the goods of
the earth.
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