Overview
Today's regnant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. Send Lazarus's theological critique wends its way through four neoliberal crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation, all while plumbing the sacrificial and racist depths of neoliberalism.
Full Product Details
Author: Matthew T. Eggemeier ,
Peter Joseph Fritz
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 9780823288014
ISBN 10: 0823288013
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 05 May 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[T]his book is required reading for those interested in theological responses to neoliberalism or concerned with social injustice. Highly recommended. * Choice * This book is one of the best theological engagements with economics available. The critique of neoliberalism is spot-on: It is a type of class warfare that does not shrink the state but empowers it to protect the market from the people. The market is sublime and cannot be controlled by people. Neoliberalism is thus a type of theology for a deified market, and Eggemeier and Fritz respond with a compelling Christian theology of a God who wants mercy, not sacrifice. If you want a vision of a world beyond today's suffering and inequality, read this book. -- William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University
This book is one of the best theological engagements with economics available. The critique of neoliberalism is spot-on: it is a type of class warfare that does not shrink the state but empowers it to protect the market from the people. The market is sublime, and cannot be controlled by people. Neoliberalism is thus a type of theology for a deified market, and Eggemeier and Fritz respond with a compelling Christian theology of a God who wants mercy, not sacrifice. If you want a vision of a world beyond today's suffering and inequality, read this book. -- William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University
Author Information
Matthew T. Eggemeier is Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of A Sacramental-Prophetic Vision: Christian Spirituality in a Suffering World and Against Empire: Ekklesial Resistance and the Politics of Radical Democracy. Peter Joseph Fritz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. He is author of Karl Rahner's Theological Aesthetics and Freedom Made Manifest: Rahner's Fundamental Option and Theological Aesthetics.
