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Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality

Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality

Pally, Marcia

Paperback

EconomicsReligion General General Christianity

Publisher Price: $53.99

ISBN10: 0802871046
ISBN13: 9780802871046
Publisher: William B Eerdmans Pub Co
Published: Mar 2 2016
Pages: 427
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In Commonwealth and Covenant Marcia Pally argues that in order to address current socioeconomic problems, we need not more economic formulas but rather a better understanding of how the world is set up -- an ontology of how we and the world work. Without this, good proposals that arise lack political will and go unimplemented.

Pally describes our basic setup as separability-amid-situatedness or distinction-amid-relation. Though we are all unique individuals, we become our singular selves through our relations and responsibilities to the people and environments around us. Pally argues that our culture's overemphasis on separability -- individualism run amok -- results in greed, adversarial and deceitful political discourse and chicanery, resource grabbing, broken relationships, and anomie.

Maintaining that separability and situatedness can and must be considered together in public policy, Pally draws on intellectual history, philosophy, and -- especially -- historic Christian and Jewish theologies of relationality to construct a new framework for addressing present economic and political ills.

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