Divine Economy or Security Management

Divine Economy: Theology and the Market

Author: D Stephen Stephen Long

Divine Economy is the first book to directly address the need for a closer relationship between the two areas. Theology and economics have been treated as very separate and isolated disciplines. Long seeks to answer the question, what has theology to do with economics? He explains that both theology and economics are sciences of human action. This book calls for an active dialogue between theology and economics that calls for a functional economy which doesn't subordinate theological knowledge.

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Theology and economics, though both sciences of human action, have generally been treated as separate and isolated disciplines. Long (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL) traces three traditions in which attempts have been made to bring theology to bear on economic questions: the dominant 20th century tradition, which sought to give economics its independence through Weber's fact-value distinction; an emergent tradition based on the concept of liberation using a Marxist social analysis; and a residual tradition that draws on an ancient understanding of a functional economy. Long concludes that the last approach shows the greatest promise for a productive conversation between the disciplines because it refuses to subordinate or accommodate theological knowledge to autonomous socio-scientific research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The dominant tradition: market values	7
	The Weberian strategy: theology's importance as value, ethos, or spirit	13
	An anthropology of liberty constrained by original sin: theology as analogia libertatis	35
	The subordination of Christology and ecclesiology to the doctrine of creation	44
Pt. II	The emergent tradition: the protest of the oikos and the polis	81
	Marxism as a theological strategy to relate theology to economics	88
	The subordination of theology to metaphysics: eschatology, ecclesiology, and the reign of God	118
	Scarcity, orthodoxy, and heresy	143
Pt. III	The residual tradition: virtues and the true, the good, and the beautiful	175
	A true economic order	182
	Theology and the good	218
	The beauty of theology: uniting the true and the good, and subordinating the useful	241
	Conclusion	261
	Notes	271
	Index	317

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Security Management: Business Strategies for Success

Author: Dennis R Dalton

Security personnel are being asked to justify their existence in a corporate environment. They must prove their worth in dollars and cents by showing the return on investing in loss prevention. This means security departments are being forced to contribute more to the business as a whole. This book will show security managers and personnel how to go about this, and how to achieve quality in their departments.

Suggests security should be a valued resource within the corporation that can contribute to bottom line performance.
Teaches security managers to approach their jobs as 'business managers who specialize in security'.
Written by Security Magazine's 1987 Executive Achievement Award recipient.

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Presents some innovative and perhaps controversial ideas about the role of security managers in today's business, insisting that they must be executives of the company first, and adept at the actual practice of security only as a qualification for getting the job in the first place. Argues that security managers can no longer sell their services as a necessary evil, but must define and pursue them as part of the whole corporate strategy and organization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)