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God and the Evil of Scarcity - Moral Foundations of Economic Agency (Paperback, New)
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God and the Evil of Scarcity - Moral Foundations of Economic Agency (Paperback, 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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