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		<title>Lecture in London, UK &#8211; Capitalism, Imagination and Desire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those currently on the British side of the pond, I am giving a lecture at LICC on June 7th. Capitalism, Imagination and Desire Mark Sampson, with the LICC team Monday June 7 Capitalism shapes us, even disciples us. Our imagination and desires are formed through the forces of our culture. Capitalism profoundly affects our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=332&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God and the Global Economy &#8211;Profit Maximization and the Death of God</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a review of the lecture given by Stephen Long during the God and the Global Economy conference on April 16.

By Mark Sampson

The theologian, Stephen Long, gave the opening lecture at the “God and Global Economy” conference. This fascinating and engaging lecture aimed at interpreting the significance of the Christological basis of Caritas in Veritate, an element which Long argues has been overlooked by many interpreters. Long notes that much of the discussion in North America has been in response to George Weigel’s provocative editorial which argued that parts of the encyclical come not directly from Benedict but rather from the more ‘left’ leaning Peace and Justice commission. As Long notes, with tongue firmly in cheek, this form of source criticism has met with strong reaction from those on the political left. This polarizing of responses to the encyclical has served, so Long argues, to focus on economic proposals and language and has served to distract from the theological claims that are the basis of the encyclical.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=324&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Exploration into &#8216;Gift&#8217; from a Pauline Perspective: Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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By Mark Sampson

This post follows on from the previous post and it develops the discussion by focusing on the contribution Paul would make to the debate over the meaning of 'gift'.

The reflections from the last post will now be brought into conversation with the apostle Paul. This will be achieved by briefly examining the social context of gift giving in the Greco-Roman world and assessing the influence this would have had on Paul. Then I will consider the variety of biblical scholarship on Paul’s interaction with gift-exchange before arguing that to understand how Paul understands gift, one needs to investigate how he conceives of Israel as gift (or resulting from grace) and subsequently and paradigmatically, Christ as gift. This will draw out the unique understanding that Paul has of gift and reciprocity.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=297&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Exploration into &#8216;Gift&#8217; from a Pauline perspective: Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much recent theological and political attention given to the impact a gift economy might have on a market economy. Pope Benedict XVI, in his latest encyclical, has argued that “in commercial relationships the principle of gratuitousness and the logic of gift as an expression of fraternity can and must find their place within normal economic activity”. The new EU President, Herman Van Rompuy, has recently given a speech  in which he advocated for a gift economy for Europe. The notion of a 'gift economy' appears to be a somewhat novel idea in modern Western politics. However, there has been a rich discussion about 'gift' in philosophy, anthropology and theology that has its roots in the seminal work by anthropologist Marcel Mauss, The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Society (1950). The cross disciplinary debate reveals that there is not a consensus over the appropriate definition of 'gift', particularly as it results to the purpose and outcome of economic activity. In order to evaluate whether the notion of 'gift' has particular relevance for economics, it is important to consider what a theological definition of gift might entail. The following paper brings the apostle Paul into conversation with the recent debate resulting in an attempt to develop the outlines of a Pauline theology of the gift. Though this (rather long!) paper does not explicitly connect the discussion to economic theory and policy, it provides a theological basis of such a discussion. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=291&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism and the Loss of a Sense of Place &#8211; Part 2: Towards a Theology of Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

It is important to set the decline of the significance of land in economics within the larger context of the separation of humans from the natural environment as a consequence of the enlightenment. The origins of this split have been traced to the nominalist and voluntarist shift in the 13th century or even to the material-intellectual dichotomy in Plato’s work. With either interpretation, there was a dramatic tearing apart of man from his environment in the age of the enlightenment. Two key figures that are both representative of and contributive to this shift are Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon. Descartes, in his quest to find a metaphysical foundation in light of the growing skepticism in Europe, made a distinction between the experiencing subject and objects, or material substances. Thus a metaphysical dualism was created between mind and matter. Daly and Cobb argue that this had a significant impact on the relationship between mankind and the natural environment, in that “since… only humans possess subjectivity, it follows that only humans can be the locus of value.”[i] <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=262&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Christianity Cause the Crash? &#8211; A Response</title>
		<link>http://capitalismreport.com/2010/01/12/did-christianity-cause-the-crash-a-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?” asks the provocative journalist Hanna Rosin in the December 09 issue of The Atlantic. Rosin’s well written article argues that the prosperity theology present in a significant amount of American churches has been a cause of the current economic crisis. In order to link this theology with the economic crisis, Rosin presents evidence to suggest that the areas, both geographic and demographic, where there was a high incidence of defaulted sub-prime mortgages are the same areas where the ‘health-and-wealth’ gospel prospers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=254&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economy of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Economy of Grace

  - Kathryn Tanner

  By Mark Sampson

      Economy of Grace is a bold, short book that provocatively enters the debate about the appropriate relationship between theology and economics. Kathryn Tanner’s desire is to develop a ‘theological economy’ to highlight what she considers to be the deficiencies of capitalism. She engages this issue in three distinct stages. Firstly, She does this by looking at the theoretical framework needed to consider the significance of theology for economic matters. Following this, she constructs a theological economy based on grace, in conversation with the philosophical and theological discourse around ‘gift’. She concludes her book by illustrating some of the impact a theological economy would make on economic policies in the contemporary global economy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=247&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economics Today: A Christian Critique</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book, Economics Today: a Christian critique, Donald Hay demonstrates “…that Christianity has much to contribute to the analysis of…major economic issues.”   In considering this book and offering a critique of its contribution, this paper will use the categories of context, aim, method and content.

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Beginning with the context of the book, Hay identifies himself as an academic economist and as a Christian.  The book is shaped by the broad economic debates in evangelical Christianity.  On this topic, two points are made.  First, “the major issue of concern for Christian economists in the 1970s and early 1980s was whether one form of economic system was more or less appropriate than another.”   This pre-occupation also affects Economics Today. The most substantial treatment is given to the comparative merits of capitalism and socialism as economic systems. Second, the debate was characterized by three ideological streams: the evangelical left, the evangelical right and the evangelical centre.   Within these categories, Hay has been identified as centrist, recognizing problems in the capitalist system without rejecting it completely. To Hay’s credit, throughout the book, he goes to great lengths to avoid ideology and maintain strong methodological integrity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=236&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Benedict XVI on the Economic Crisis and the Logic of the Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a seeming endless amount of accounts of who or what is to blame for the current economic crisis. Is it the US government for allowing the collapse of Lehman Bros? Or was it the rating agencies who rated high-risk packages of sub-prime mortgages as if they were a rock solid investment? Or is it perhaps the very structure of the corporation that encourages short-term profits over long-term sustainability?

Into this debate, if mostly indirectly, enters the voice of Pope Benedict XVI. His latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), is an exposition of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church as it relates to contemporary issues. This extensive document brings Catholic teaching to bear on globalization, technology, development, politics and economics.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=225&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism and the Loss of a Sense of Place &#8211; Part 1: The Concept of Land in Economics</title>
		<link>http://capitalismreport.com/2009/06/06/207/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism and the Loss of a Sense of Place

Part 1: The Concept of Land in Economics

The Capitalism Project is undertaking a series of reflections on the loss of a sense of place in modern society. The Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann in his book The Land comments, “The sense of being lost, displaced, and homeless is pervasive in contemporary culture. The yearning to belong somewhere, to have a home, to be in a safe place, is a deep and moving pursuit.” The theologian Oliver O’Donovan explicitly connects this ‘homelessness’ with consequences of the modern economy: “Homo Oeconomicus [economic man], that unspiritual clod, has become a wanderer en masse.” This series will attempt to investigate the claims of Brueggemann and O’Donovan and consider the relationship between the loss of a sense of place and capitalism.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=capitalismreport.com&amp;blog=6283784&amp;post=207&amp;subd=capitalismproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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