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Political Economy and Christian Theology Since the Enlightenment

Essays in Intellectual History

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. A. M. C. Waterman

    1. St John’s College, Winnipeg, Canada
      University of Manitoba, Canada

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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Political Economy and Christian Theology

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 1-15

  3. Why the English “Enlightenment” Was Different

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 16-30

  4. Theology and Political Doctrine in Church and Dissent

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 31-54

  5. Intellectual Foundations of Tory Doctrine

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 55-69

  6. A Cambridge “Via Media”

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 70-87

  7. Wealth of Nations as Theology

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 88-106

  8. The Sudden Separation of Political Economy

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 107-126

  9. Methodology of Classical Political Economy

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 127-142

  10. Peasants, Population and Progress

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 143-162

  11. Property Rights in Christian Social Teaching

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 163-178

  12. The Intellectual Context of Rerum Novarum

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 179-193

  13. Market Social Order and Christian Organicism

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 194-206

  14. Establishment Social Thinking

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 207-224

  15. Economics and the Mutation of Political Doctrine

    • A. M. C. Waterman
    Pages 225-249

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 250-333
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Political economy and Christian theology coexisted happily in the intellectual world of the eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century they came to be seen as incompatible, even mutually hostile. In the twentieth century they went their separate ways and are no longer on speaking terms. These fourteen essays by Anthony Waterman serve as snapshots of the history of this estrangement, and illustrate the gradual replacement of the discourse of theology by that of economics as the rational framework of political debate. Others have recently shown that both political economy and Christian theology are important, though somewhat neglected elements in modern intellectual history. This book is the first to combine these two lines of inquiry.

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'Overall this is a fascinating and unique survey of a complex set of relationships which plausibly defends a strong thesis about the development of political economy in the context of English theology'. - Mark Chapman, Ecclesiastical History

Authors and Affiliations

  • St John’s College, Winnipeg, Canada

    A. M. C. Waterman

  • University of Manitoba, Canada

    A. M. C. Waterman

About the author

A. M. C. WATERMAN read economics at Cambridge, studied theology at St John's College, Winnipeg, and earned a doctorate in economics and economic history at the Australian National University. Beginning in 1965, he has published extensively both in economics and theology. Since his tenure of the Maurice Reckitt Fellowship in Christian Social Thought at the University of Sussex he has increasingly attempted to combine the two fields in intellectual history. His Revolution, Economics and Religion (Cambridge 1991) was awarded the Forkosch Prize for intellectual history in 1992.

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