Theology and Economics ─ A Christian Vision of the Common Good

The relationship between contemporary theologians and economists has ranged from frosty to indifferent. Economists can tend to relegate theological reasoning to the realm of private spirituality, seeing it as having with little relevance for their analysis of markets and economic activity. Simultaneously, theologians often make lofty and idealised pronouncements about economics with very little understanding of the economic realities they critique. It is into this gap that this volume seeks to provide a uniquely collaborative example. This volume brings together a group of prominent Christian economists and theologians in a conversation which seeks to better understand how we might make use of the tools of economic and theological reasoning–which are too often wielded as swords of blame and recrimination against one another–into plowshares: tools which can be used jointly by Christian economists and theologians to cultivate more just and moral economies in the 21st century.

Jeremy Kidwell is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he also completed a PhD in theological ethics in 2013. His doctoral research was on the theology of work and he is currently researching Christian responses to climate change.

Reverend Dr. Sean Doherty is Director of Studies and Tutor and Lecturer in Ethics at St Mellitus College, UK. His most recent publication is Theology and Economic Ethics. He has also written on medical and sexual ethics, and is a member of the Grove Ethics group.