Of Divine Economy

Marion Grau is the Assistant Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a member of the Graduate Theological Union. She is the co-editor with Rosemary Radford Ruether of Interpreting Post-Modernity: Responses to Radical Orthodoxy. Her essays have appeared in Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War, Postcolonialism and Theology, and Crosscurrents.

• Introduction; An Exorbitant 'Economy'; Theology and Oikonomia; The Plan of the Book; Part 1. Of Divine Currencies in Post-modernity God and Mammon in the Third Millennium; Post-modernity and Postcolonialism: Hybridity and Ambivalence; Constructive Theological Approaches to Oikonomia: Toward a Counter-Economic Theology; Part 2. Found Lacking: Masculine Hysteria and the Economics of Redemption; What Do I Still Lack? Masculine Hysteria, Ancient and Modern; Be Thou My Inheritance...; An Expanding Economy: Divine or Imperial? Lack and Wealth in Alexandria; Just Deserts: Ascetic Investments Among the Sand Dunes; Imperial Economies of Power; The Colonial Properties of Divine Economy; Insufficient Funds: Managing the Gendered Politics of Hysteria; Part 3. Ms. Appropriating Properties: Hysterical Women and the Gendering of Redemption; Bottoming Out: A Widow's Bio-Power; Women, 'The Gift,' and Property; The Rhetorical Economies of Martyrdom; Que(e)r(y)ing the Female Martyr; Domesticating the Virgin and the Bride; 'Wasteful' and 'Indecent' Women; Part 4. Divine Commerce: A Counter-economic Reading of Redemption; A 'Miraculous' Exchange; '... A Ransom For Many'? Slavery, Redemption, and Debt Relief; Reconsidering the Admirabile Commercium; Payback Time: Feminist Critiques of Atonement Theories; O Admirabile Commercium: Of 'Indecent Proposals' and Ties that Bind; Part 5. Divine Economy Refinanced; Redemptive Trickery: Confidence Men, 'Strategic Tricksters' and Counter-economic Mysteries; A Trickster's Strategically Essential Investments; Asceticism as Resistance: Then and Now; Holy Wisdom, Holy Fool; Gendering the Trickster; Saint Mysteria: Women as Sacred Tricksters; Counterfeit/ing Christ; Works Cited

"This is a thoroughly engaging and stimulating book.  Often it made me stop and ponder a point, construct a train of thought and an argument, [and] nod in agreement...Divine Economy is worth a read." -Roland Boer, The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 6