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Theology and Economic Ethics - Martin Luther and Arthur Rich in Dialogue (Hardcover)
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Theology and Economic Ethics - Martin Luther and Arthur Rich in Dialogue (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
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In the wake of the economic crisis, few questions are more pressing
than those around the ethics of finance and economics. Theology and
Economic Ethics seeks to expand the self-critical resources of
contemporary theological economic ethics by bringing the method of
a pre-modern thinker, Martin Luther (1483-1546), into interaction
with that of a modern contribution to social ethics, the Swiss
theologian Arthur Rich (1910-92). The work is undertaken through a
close engagement with a selected publication of Luther (his 1519/20
Grosser Sermon von dem Wucher) and of Rich (his masterwork,
Wirtschaftsethik, published in two volumes in 1984 and 1990
respectively). It is the first substantial treatment in English of
Rich's magnum opus. Sean Doherty introduces Luther's sermon on
usury, situates it in its context, then provides a commentary on
this work, discussing how Luther brings key theological motifs to
bear on a particular economic question. The study proceeds with a
sketch of Arthur Rich's life and work, and presents Rich's method
as set out in Wirtschaftsethik. Doherty illuminates Rich's
understanding of ethics, his approach to Scripture, and his
adoption of the thought of Max Weber and John Rawls. Bringing
insights from the study of Luther to bear in an analysis of Rich's
method, Doherty questions some of Rich's assumptions, and notes
ways in which a more self-critical approach could have made his
project more successful. Finally, the book makes tentative
suggestions as to the wider applicability of these findings for a
Christian approach to economic ethics.
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