Calculated Futures

D. Stephen Long (Ph.D. Duke) is Professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette University and is the author of The Goodness of God: Theology, Church, and the Social Order (2001).Nancy Ruth Fox (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences and Associate Professor of Economics at Saint Joseph's University.Tripp York (Ph.D. Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University.

• IntroductionPart I: The Logic of the Market: An Investigation of First Principles1. Prophets and Profits: Economics and Theology in Conflict?2. The Facts about Values3. What Makes Theology ""Political?"": Come Let Us Reason Together4. The Theology of Economics: Adam Smith as 'church' FatherPart II: The Corporation and Everyday Economic Life: A Traditioned Theological Inquiry5. Corporations and the Ends We Serve6. Usury: Avarice as a Capital Vice7. A Catholic Church and a Global Market: The Tale of Two Corporations8. Offering Our Gifts: The Politics of Remembrance

Leading voices in the new discussion of theology and economy advance the conversation beyond outworn dichotomies and intellectual deadlocks with grace and charity. Tracing the contours of a robustly theological economy, Long and Fox find resources of hope beyond the depredations of the current economic order in the gift of the riches of Christian doctrine and practice. --Daniel M. Bell, Jr., Associate Professor of Theological Ethics, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary