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Available now from @BHAcademic with @erikwmatson:
A History of Christian Political Economy bhacademic.bhpublishinggroup…
Sources in Christian Political Economy
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Why is authority necessary, and how should it be structured?
In her plenary session at our Fixing the Federal Courts symposium, Professor Stephanie Barclay explores these questions before discussing some common misconceptions regarding the judiciary’s role in democracy.
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At @TheFreemanMag , I tip my hat to David Hume.
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Blessed Crispin's Day!
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What a wonderful two days at our JRCD Symposium! Scholars presented research relating to the Declaration of Independence’s legacy as a political document at the intersection of religion and culture, which will be published in our Journal of Religion, Culture, and Democracy.
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UATX's American Civilization Director Jacob Wolf on Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire — five paintings tracing a civilization from wilderness to ruin.
"Cole warns us, in effect, that civilization is not the same as progress. Human beings may build cities, engage in commerce, and cultivate the arts and sciences and yet lose the virtues and moderation that make civilization good."
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"An entrepreneur that she quotes who emphasizes the importance of virtue to a leader’s personality 'considers that running a company is comparable to governing a country, and both depend on a leader’s virtue, for a virtuous man attracts ’men of talent’ [rencai 人才) more easily.'"
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"The book’s central claim is both simple and far-reaching: What we call political economy did not emerge in opposition to Christianity but from within it. The categories that structure modern economic reasoning—value, exchange, property, obligation—were first elaborated in theological and moral debates about sin, justice, charity, and the proper use of wealth. If the modern market appears secular, it is in large part because it has inherited a moral grammar whose original metaphysical grounding has gradually been thinned, translated, and in some cases forgotten."
I am very grateful to @jan_c_bentz for this robust and engaging review of the history of Christian engagement with political economy I wrote with @erikwmatson...
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I am very grateful to @jan_c_bentz for this robust and engaging review of the history of Christian engagement with political economy I wrote with @erikwmatson...
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"By putting together the Jewish prohibition of extramarital sex with Roman monogamy, the early Christians arrived at the idea that each man should be faithful to one woman, just as each woman should be faithful to one man."
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Read @jan_c_bentz's @ActonInstitute review of "A History of Christian Political Economy: From the Patristics to the Present" by @JordanBallor & @erikwmatson. buff.ly/yTngdgU – at Troy, MI
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This week, we’ll be hosting a symposium on the legacy of the Declaration of Independence for our Journal of Religion, Culture, and Democracy at The Blake Center for Faith & Freedom.
Now at the Reading Wheel Review:
@MDH_GFU on McClay's Land of Hope
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Notre Dame Law's religious liberty clinic wrongly supports the ACLU's SCOTUS petition to keep the Ten Commandments off Texas classroom walls. It misreads the Religion Clauses. A poster compels no one. Attendance is required. Attention is not. My rebuttal: ncregister.com/commentaries/…
Adam Smith said (according to Burke) that after first conversing “on subjects of political economy” that Burke was “the only man, who, without communication, thought on these topics exactly as he did.”
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The Spirituality and Innovation Field Guide helps ministry innovators integrate faith and innovation through 10 practical, inspiring pillars featuring Scripture, prayer, reflection, and tools for action.
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"Is it really possible, he asks, that the whole world is wrong and the Jews are right?"
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