- Consulting Editors
- The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Economics in the Christian Scriptures
- Economics in the Church Fathers
- Voluntary Exchange and Coercion in Scholastic Economics
- Economics and Theology in Italy since the Eighteenth Century
- From the Foundation of Liberal Political Economy to its Critique: Theology and Economics in France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Theology and the Rise of Political Economy in Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Economics and Theology in Europe from the Nineteenth Century: From the Early Nineteenth Century’s Christian Political Economy to Modern Catholic Social Doctrine
- Economics and Theology after the Separation
- Roman Catholic Economics
- Anglicanism
- Eastern Orthodoxy’s Theology of Economics
- Reformed Christian Economics
- Theonomy and Economic Institutions
- Anabaptist Approaches to Economics
- Pentecostal Approaches to Economics
- Interface and Integration in Christian Economics
- Weber, Theology, and Economics
- Economic Religion and Environmental Religion
- Christianity and the Prospects for Development in the Global South
- Faith, Religion, and International Development
- Christianity and the Global Economic Order
- Economic Models of Churches
- The Economics of Religious Schism and Switching
- Spiritual Capital
- Religious Labor Markets
- Behavioral Economics of Religion
- Regulation of Religious Markets
- Economic Justice
- Happiness
- Usury
- Human Nature, Identity, and Motivation
- Gender
- Poverty
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Theonomy draws upon biblical law for normative economic institutional arrangements as an alternative to modern “value-free” economics. Often identified with the Reformed faith and allied with “Christian Reconstructionism,” theonomists affirm all nations are made up of God’s image-bearers who though sinful remain bound by God’s “dominion covenant” commanding them to subdue the earth. The Old Testament provides God’s law to direct the rule of nations, and it is mandatory for modern civil government to enforce its “cross-boundary laws.” These statutes provide specific applications of the Mosaic covenant regarding theft and deceit in the form of case laws securing property rights, honest weights and measures, and timely wage payments. Theonomists aver that nations will enjoy long-run economic growth if their governments constrain their economic role to securing property rights, punishing economic fraud, and prohibiting economic abuse of the poor, judicial discrimination in terms of wealth or power, and a central bank monopoly over monetary creation.
Keywords: methodology of economics, Old Testament, biblical case law, Christian Reconstructionism, property rights, cross-boundary laws, economic growth, currency debasement, dominion covenant, honest weights and measures
Edd Noell is Professor of Economics at Westmont College in Santa Barbara.
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- Consulting Editors
- The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Economics in the Christian Scriptures
- Economics in the Church Fathers
- Voluntary Exchange and Coercion in Scholastic Economics
- Economics and Theology in Italy since the Eighteenth Century
- From the Foundation of Liberal Political Economy to its Critique: Theology and Economics in France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Theology and the Rise of Political Economy in Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Economics and Theology in Europe from the Nineteenth Century: From the Early Nineteenth Century’s Christian Political Economy to Modern Catholic Social Doctrine
- Economics and Theology after the Separation
- Roman Catholic Economics
- Anglicanism
- Eastern Orthodoxy’s Theology of Economics
- Reformed Christian Economics
- Theonomy and Economic Institutions
- Anabaptist Approaches to Economics
- Pentecostal Approaches to Economics
- Interface and Integration in Christian Economics
- Weber, Theology, and Economics
- Economic Religion and Environmental Religion
- Christianity and the Prospects for Development in the Global South
- Faith, Religion, and International Development
- Christianity and the Global Economic Order
- Economic Models of Churches
- The Economics of Religious Schism and Switching
- Spiritual Capital
- Religious Labor Markets
- Behavioral Economics of Religion
- Regulation of Religious Markets
- Economic Justice
- Happiness
- Usury
- Human Nature, Identity, and Motivation
- Gender
- Poverty
- Index
