Economics as Religion - Max L. Stackhouse
Many of the classical founders of the field of economics not only were guided by theological assumptions but also viewed the field in messianic terms. They presumed that the primary reason for human pain, suffering, and death is that we are in a state of scarcity.
We can only be delivered from this perilous existence by the overcoming of material deprivation - a prospect that can only come from rightly formulated, rightly believed, and rightly lived principles and policies.
Economics can deliver us, bring about a redeemed state of affairs on earth, and lead us to abundant living - the materially incarnate form of salvation.
Max L. Stackhouse, Princenton Theological Seminar
Foreword to Economics as Religion, Robert H. Nelson, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001
We can only be delivered from this perilous existence by the overcoming of material deprivation - a prospect that can only come from rightly formulated, rightly believed, and rightly lived principles and policies.
Economics can deliver us, bring about a redeemed state of affairs on earth, and lead us to abundant living - the materially incarnate form of salvation.
Max L. Stackhouse, Princenton Theological Seminar
Foreword to Economics as Religion, Robert H. Nelson, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001
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