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Title Adam Smith as theologian / edited by Paul Oslington
Published New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 146 pages)
Series Routledge studies in religion ; 14
Routledge studies in religion ; 14.
Contents The influence of religious thinking on the Smithian revolution / Benjamin M. Friedman -- Adam Smith, theology, and natural law ethics / John Haldane -- Sympathy and domination : Adam Smith, happiness, and the virtues of Augustinianism / Eric Gregory -- Christian freedom in political economy : the legacy of John Calvin in the thought of Adam Smith / Joe Blosser -- Divine action, providence, and Adam Smith's invisible hand / Paul Oslington -- Adam Smith, natural theology, and the natural sciences / Peter Harrison -- How high does the impartial spectator go? / James Otteson -- Adam Smith's theodicy / Brendan Long -- From civil to political economy : Adam Smith's theological debt / Adrian Pabst -- Man and society in Adam Smith's natural morality : the impartial spectator, the man of system, and the invisible hand / Ross B. Emmett -- A visible hand : contemporary lessons from Adam Smith / Paul S. Williams
Summary This book considers the theological background and meaning of Smith's work. Adam Smith as Theologian gathers a group of eminent economists, historians, philosophers, and theologians to reflect on these questions, examining the extent to which even contemporary economics may contain residues of Smith's theological mores
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 -- Religion
SUBJECT Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 fast (OCoLC)fst00051861
Subject RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- History.
Religion.
Form Electronic book
Author Oslington, Paul
LC no. 2010048765
ISBN 9780203816417
0203816412
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9781283103145
9786613103147
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