Towards Affirmative Economic Theologies Responses to the Problem of Evil in Contemporary Italian Thought
The burgeoning field of economic theology constitutes primarily a critical device against the Nachleben of medieval providential theology in modern economic governance. Especially Agamben has highlighted the role of the notion of oikonomia in providential and modern economic thought to promote humbl...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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Political theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 21, Issue: 7, Pages: 634-649 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Agamben, Giorgio 1942-
/ Negri, Antonio 1933-2023
/ Job Biblical character
/ Maria, von Nazaret, Biblische Person
/ Evil
/ Economy
/ Vulnerability
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality HA Bible KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology NCE Business ethics |
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economic theology
B Care Ethics B problem of evil B Cavarero B Agamben B Italian thought B Negri |
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| Summary: | The burgeoning field of economic theology constitutes primarily a critical device against the Nachleben of medieval providential theology in modern economic governance. Especially Agamben has highlighted the role of the notion of oikonomia in providential and modern economic thought to promote humble acceptance in light of the problem of evil. I show how economic theology can also be a vantage point for affirmative critique. I discuss Negri’s interpretation of the Book of Job and the Italian feminist appreciation of the Virgin Mary as responses to the problem of evil. Both emphasize the ineradicable potential for resistance to oikonomia in human life instead of merely lamenting humanity’s submission to God’s providential economy, like Agamben. For Negri, this potential is located in humankind’s capacity to protest against God-given evil and re-appropriate God’s potential for creating the world, while the feminists point toward the human ability to care for the vulnerable. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Reference: | Errata "Correction (2021)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1800941 |