Preface 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
Philip Goodchild is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety and the editor of Difference in the Philosophy of Religion and Rethinking Philosophy of Religion: Approaches from Continental Philosophy.
“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. .
.”
*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.”
*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.”
*Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory*
“Recommended. Graduate students and faculty/researchers.”
*Choice*
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