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Subject(s)

• Smith, Adam 1723-1790—Religion [Browse]
• Religion and ethics [Browse]
• Economics—Religious aspects—Christianity [Browse]
• Economics—Philosophy [Browse]
• Philosophy, Scottish—18th century [Browse]

Editor

• Ballor, Jordan J. (Jordan Joseph) [Browse]
• Kooi, Cornelis van der [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics [More in this series]

Summary note

"This work details the theological sources and moral significance of the life and work of the Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790). The panel of contributors deepen our understanding of Adam Smith in his religious and theological context and the significance of this understanding for contemporary moral, economic, and political challenges to modern social life. The chapters cover a broad range of disciplinary and historical concerns, from Smith's view of providence and his famous "invisible hand" to the role of self-interest and benevolence in Smith's social and economic thought. A better appreciation for the moral and theological dimensions of Smith's thought provides not only a better understanding of Smith's own context and significance in the Scottish Enlightenment, but also promises to assist in meeting the perennial challenges of properly connecting economic realities to moral responsibility. The book is of interest to advanced students and scholars of the history of economic thought, historical and moral theology, intellectual history, political science and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Exploring Adam Smith's theological contexts, sources, and significance / Jordan J. Ballor and Cornelis van der Kooi
• Bourgeois culture : understanding Adam Smith's moral horizon / Govert J. Buijs
• A survey of Adam Smith's theological sources / Jordan J. Ballor
• Calvin and Smith on providence, morality, virtues, and human flourishing / Cornelis van der Kooi
• Self-love and its discontents : trajectories in reformed moral philosophy and theology before Adam Smith / Andrew M. McGinnis
• Smith and the scholastic tradition on markets and their moral rationale / Edd Noell
• Adam Smith's seventeenth-century French theological sources / Ryan Patrick Hanley
• Smith and enlightened Augustinianism / Joost Hengstmengel
• Adam Smith's theological hinterland / David Fergusson
• Butler and Smith's ethical and theological framing of commerce / Erik W. Matson
• Adam Smith's theory of the moral vicegerents of God / Rudi Verburg
• Adam Smith's theology and virtues as conditions for the potential of free-market economies to contribute to human flourishing / Johan Graafland
• The Adam Smith problem theologically reconsidered / Luigino Bruni and Paolo Santori
• Smith on moral agency, and the moral significance of context / Christina McRorie.

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ISBN

• 9780367534653 (hardcover)
• 0367534657 (hardcover)
• 9780367534660 (paperback)
• 0367534665 (paperback)

LCCN

2021062410

OCLC

1290015546

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