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Book SynopsisAn argument, based in Christian theology and critical social theory, that money is the religion of the contemporary world: economic valuation has trumped moral evaluation.
Trade Review“Recommended. Graduate students and faculty/researchers.” - F. G. Kirkpatrick,
Choice“Goodchild has provided a powerful example of forgiveness as the creation of new value. His account of money puts great demands on our ability to think creatively about money and about value. His tremendously invigorating political, economic and theological proposals for transforming credit in society could produce many important and needed transformations. Such transformations are absolutely necessary if we are going to live in a world where life has many possibilities and people live their lives with wealth. . .” - Char Roone Miller,
Theory & Event“Goodchild’s work is a tour de force of conceptual analysis, engaging A. Smith and C. Schmitt among others, en route to arguing that theology must counter the conscription of time, attention, and demands made by money with its own vision of social existence.” - Myles Werntz,
Religious Studies Review“
Theology of Money by Philip Goodchild is a densely argued and multilayered treatise that excavates the theological power incarnated in the global monetary system. . . . There is a lot to learn from in this book.” -
Review of Politics“Philip Goodchild is the most constructive and original philosopher of
religion in the UK. . . . What Goodchild offers is both a critique of money and a theology of money, and part of what makes this book so fascinating is the significance of calling what he is doing here a theology of money as opposed to simply a critique of money. . . .
Theology of Money . . . sketches a radical theological vision of credit that promises the potential for a future theology as well as a future humanity. . . . [Goodchild] provides vital resources of thought and capital for theological and practical human beings to put to work.” - Clayton Crockett,
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory“The power of the analysis, the energy of the text, the passions it excites in the reader, and its call upon us to think beyond the limits in which most philosophical, theological, economic, and cultural thought is enclosed make
Theology of Money an indispensable book.”—
William E. Connolly, author of
Capitalism and Christianity, American Style“Well written and very well researched,
Theology of Money is a remarkable and very important book; there is nothing else like it currently in print. Philip Goodchild’s thesis is, in a way, startlingly simple: the universal sway of money exists instead of a universal sway of an ethics and a religion.”—
Catherine Pickstock, co-editor of
Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology“
Theology of Money by Philip Goodchild is a densely argued and multilayered treatise that excavates the theological power incarnated in the global monetary system. . . . There is a lot to learn from in this book.” * Review of Politics *
“Goodchild has provided a powerful example of forgiveness as the creation of new value. His account of money puts great demands on our ability to think creatively about money and about value. His tremendously invigorating political, economic and theological proposals for transforming credit in society could produce many important and needed transformations. Such transformations are absolutely necessary if we are going to live in a world where life has many possibilities and people live their lives with wealth. . .” -- Char Roone Miller * Theory & Event *
“Goodchild’s work is a tour de force of conceptual analysis, engaging A. Smith and C. Schmitt among others, en route to arguing that theology must counter the conscription of time, attention, and demands made by money with its own vision of social existence.” -- Myles Werntz * Religious Studies Review *
“Philip Goodchild is the most constructive and original philosopher of religion in the UK. . . . What Goodchild offers is both a critique of money and a theology of money, and part of what makes this book so fascinating is the significance of calling what he is doing here a theology of money as opposed to simply a critique of money. . . .
Theology of Money . . . sketches a radical theological vision of credit that promises the potential for a future theology as well as a future humanity. . . . [Goodchild] provides vital resources of thought and capital for theological and practical human beings to put to work.” -- Clayton Crockett * Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory *
“Recommended. Graduate students and faculty/researchers.” -- F. G. Kirkpatrick * Choice *
Table of ContentsPreface to the U.S. Edition xi
Introduction 1
Part. I. Of Politics
1. Power 29
2. The End of Modernity 43
Part II. A Treatise on Money
3. Ecology of Money 73
4. Politics of Money 123
5. Theology of Money 165
Part III. Of Theology
6. Metaphysics and Credit 201
7. The Price of Credit 225
8. A Modest Proposal: Evaluative Credit 241
Conclusion. Of Redemption 257
Notes 263
Bibliography 281
Index 293
