Political Economy and Christian Theology Since the Enlightenment: Essays in Intellectual History

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
1 Political Economy and Christian Theology......Page 16
1.1 Economic problems of a \"Christian polity\"......Page 17
1.2 Explanations of the supplanting of theology by economics......Page 18
1.3 Intellectual historiography of Christian theology, and of political economy......Page 22
1.4 Putting the two together......Page 26
2 Why the English \"Enlightenment\" Was Different......Page 31
2.1 Enthusiasm......Page 33
2.2 Superstition......Page 36
2.3 The exclusion of superstition and enthusiasm from Establishment religion......Page 40
3 Theology and Political Doctrine in Church and Dissent......Page 46
3.1 Ecclesiology of the Book of Common Prayer......Page 50
3.2 Christian Organicism in Church and State......Page 56
3.3 Dissent......Page 62
4 Intellectual Foundations of Tory Doctrine......Page 70
4.1 Subordination......Page 71
4.2 Instrumental justification of subordination......Page 73
4.3 The Great Chain of Being......Page 75
4.4 Tory theory of subordination......Page 79
5 A Cambridge \"Via Media\"......Page 85
5.1 The political and theological climate of opinion......Page 86
5.2 Watson, Paley and Hey......Page 90
5.3 Intellectual legacy of \"Paley and his school\"......Page 98
6.1 Introduction......Page 103
6.2 Nature......Page 105
6.3 Interest......Page 110
6.4 Theodicy......Page 114
6.5 Conclusion......Page 119
7 The Sudden Separation of Political Economy......Page 122
7.1 Economic thought in eighteenth-century Britain......Page 123
7.2 The Wealth of Nations and Christian theology......Page 127
7.3 The Essay on Population......Page 129
7.4 The boundary between political economy and Christian theology......Page 135
8 Methodology of Classical Political Economy......Page 142
8.1 The ideological crisis of the 1820s......Page 144
8.2 Demarcation of \"scientific from religious\"......Page 148
8.3 The methodology of political economy......Page 154
9 Peasants, Population and Progress......Page 158
9.1 Why did \"peasants\" matter to Malthus and Chalmers?......Page 159
9.2 How to ameliorate the condition of the \"peasants\"......Page 164
9.3 Inferences for public policy......Page 171
Appendix: The case of land-owning peasants......Page 177
10 Property Rights in Christian Social Teaching......Page 178
10.1 Locke\'s doctrine of property rights......Page 179
10.2 Property rights in Rerum Novarum......Page 184
10.3 Some questions raised by the foregoing......Page 189
11.1 Why not before 1891?......Page 194
11.2 Hostility to a market social order......Page 199
11.3 Why not socialism?......Page 204
11.4 Is Adam Smith compatible with St Thomas?......Page 208
12.1 Introduction......Page 209
12.2 The intellectual context of papal social teaching......Page 210
12.3 Presuppositions of a market social order......Page 212
12.4 Contradiction in Centesimus Annus......Page 215
12.5 A Thomastic logic of Christian organicism......Page 218
12.6 A difficulty of \"Christian social thinking\"......Page 220
12.7Conclusion......Page 221
13.1 The Church of England as a paradigm......Page 222
13.2 History and the present state of Anglican social thinking......Page 225
13.3 Economics and theology in Establishment social theory......Page 234
14.1 Introduction......Page 240
14.2 \"The natural system of perfect liberty and justice\"......Page 242
14.3 The economics of control......Page 246
14.4 \"New Political Economies\" in the twenty-first century......Page 255
14.5 The bottom line......Page 263
Notes......Page 265
References......Page 302
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