Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802871046 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Marcia Pally explores the idea of covenant for politics and economics Thomas J. Farrell The rich people in the world today keep getting richer, but an estimated one billion people in the world today live on a dollar a day or less. See Paul Collier’s book The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Oxford University Press, 2007).As progressives and liberals in the United States know, the Republican Party includes economic libertarians such as the Koch brothers -- some of whom live under . Important but hard to understand I was disappointed because the book is anything but easy-to-read and easy-to-understand. This makes me angry because the author has something important to explain: a possible solution to an economic situation that isn't being addressed by any so-called leaders of whom I am aware. However, I needed a dictionary to translate her thoughts. I'm serious. I had an old-fashion paper dictionary next to me as I read as well as the internet opened and at ready
Marcia Pally’s Commonwealth and Covenant opens up a broad and generous middle way, one that is interdisciplinarily informed, historically rooted, philosophically robust, and theologically foundational. Not if we read this magisterial study of relationality in Western theology and culture, brimming as it is with her signature brio and erudition as a leading thinker on religion and society. This most welcome book leverages an ancient and helpfully foreign concept — the biblical idea of covenant — to move beyond this paralyzing binary. This book is so helpful to me as a pastor because it affirms the basic theme that each person is a valuable creation of God, yet made for relationships.”Amos Yong — Fuller Theological Seminary “Questions about ‘the one’ and ‘the many’ have persisted over millennia. Some in monotheistic traditions emphasize the former, to the exclusion of the latter; in reaction,
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. . 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. 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. Pally argues that our culture’s overemphasis on “separability” — individualism run amok — results in greed, adversarial and deceitf