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- First book concerned with a detailed examination of faith based economic and social relations in the first two Books of the Bible
- Examines the Biblical foundations for a conception of social relations and sets it against secular notions
- Offers a reading of some issues relevant for to-day economic and social life
Part of the book series: Virtues and Economics (VIEC, volume 4)
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Table of contents (45 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Genesis
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book provides a systematic commentary on the first two books of the Bible: Genesis and Exodus. Drawing on these two essential books, it subsequently offers new readings of several issues relevant for today’s economic and social life.
Western Humanism has its own founding cultural and symbolic codes. One of them is the Bible, which has for millennia provided a wealth of expressions on politics and love, death and economy, hope and doom. Biblical stories have been revived and reinterpreted by hundreds of generations, and have informed many of our most beautiful works of art, not to mention the dreams of children and adults alike. And they have given us hope during the many painful times of exile and oppression that we have gone through, and are going through still.
Among the books of the Bible, in both the Jewish and Christian traditions, Genesis and Exodus represent the true foundation of biblical theology and anthropology, but in them we also find the roots of the culture of markets, money and commerce, which would go on to flourish during the Middle Ages and ultimately form the ‘spirit of capitalism’ (Max Weber) or the ‘religion of capitalism’ (Walter Benjamin) in the modern era.
This book examines the Biblical foundations of our conception of social relations, and offers new insights on the present economic and social discourse.
Keywords
- Economics and religion
- Book of Genesis
- Ethical and Spiritual Foundations of Economic Relations
- Book of Exodus
- Theological roots of modern economics
- Fundamental concepts of Economics
- Economy and Economics
- Bible and Economics
- Biblical economy
- The tree of the knowledge of good and evil
- Inhabiting the Realm of the Human
- Biblical Economics
- Face of God
- Earth Is Pure Gift
- Law of Daily Bread
- Why the World Doesn't End
- Forgiving is a Blessing Struggle
- Blessing of Moses
Authors and Affiliations
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GEPLI Department – Economics, Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta, Roma, Italy
Luigino Bruni
About the author
Luigino Bruni is professor of Economics at Lumsa University, Rome. He studies ethics and economics, philosophy, history of ideas, and the links between economics and theology. In the last years he started to work in the biblical tradition from an anthropological point of view.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Economy of Salvation
Book Subtitle: Ethical and Anthropological Foundations of Market Relations in the First Two Books of the Bible
Authors: Luigino Bruni
Series Title: Virtues and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04082-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04081-9Published: 28 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04082-6Published: 11 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2520-1794
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1808
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 187
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Biblical Studies, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Society, Philosophy of Religion