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- Title
FORGIVENESS AND THE END OF ECONOMY.
- Authors
Bell Jr., Daniel M.
- Abstract
This paper considers the economic effect of the Christian practice of forgiveness. In particular, the argument is that the gift of divine forgiveness in Christ, as articulated by Anselm, interrupts `economy' (with its logic of scarcity, debt, and finally death) and puts in place an aneconomic order (with its theo-logic of abundance, ceaseless generosity, and resurrection) that is full of the promise of deliverance from the affliction of capitalism. Also addressed here is the way that the human reception of divine forgiveness takes shape in the Works of Mercy, how these works are not rightly understood as `mere charity' at home within `economy' but in fact constitute the appearance of an order that heralds the end of economy, and,finally, how this practice off orgiveness redeems! reconfigures what is commonly called `economic justice'.
- Subjects
FORGIVENESS in religion; DISTRIBUTIVE justice; JESUS Christ; CAPITALISM; SACRIFICE; CIVIL society
- Publication
Studies in Christian Ethics, 2007, Vol 20, Issue 3, p325
- ISSN
0953-9468
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0953946807082931