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Christian engagement with economics tends to baptize pre-existing
sociopolitical perspectives, thereby assuming a predetermined
metaphysical narrative. What happens when the story of the
development of economics, told from an anthropological and
sociological perspective, is juxtaposed with a biblical theology
that focuses primarily on relationships? Wagenfuhr tests a
theological method grounded in three kinds of relationships:
Creatorcreature,estrangement, and Reconciler-reconciled, by
comparing these with a fourth relationship: the economic. He argues
that economic relationships, and the worlds they create throughout
history, are the fruit of relationships estranged from God. Much
theology has committed itself to a metaphysic rooted in the reality
of economics and his told a metaphysical story that tends to
legitimize current sociopolitical realities. Wagenfuhr argues that
reconciliation with God is entirely subversive to economic
relationships. No economic relationship or system is established or
justified by God; but neither does he reject them. Instead, the
love of God in Christ speaks the economic language of a people,
with a critical edge, leading to loving subversion of any and all
economic relationships.This book argues for a robust theology that
offers the post-Christendom church a renewed sense of the total
scale of God's mission of reconciliation.
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