Revolution, economics, and religion : Christian political economy, 1798-1833

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Revolution, economics, and religion : Christian political economy, 1798-1833

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Christian political economy, 1798-1833

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A.M.C. Waterman

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Revolution, Economics & Religion

Creator

• Waterman, Anthony Michael C

Subject

• Malthus, T. R., (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834
• Theodicy -- History of doctrines -- 19th century
• Christian sociology -- Protestant churches | History of doctrines -- 19th century
• Christian sociology -- Great Britain -- History of doctrines -- 19th century
• Economics -- Religious aspects | Christianity | History of doctrines -- 19th century
• Conservatism -- Religious aspects | Christianity | History -- 19th century
• Christianity and politics -- Protestant churches | History -- 19th century
• Revolutions -- Religious aspects | Christianity | History of doctrines -- 19th century
• Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

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eng

Summary

Malthus's Essay on Population was seen in 1798 as a complete refutation of Godwin and all 'Jacobin' ideology. It proved that a state of equality and justice for all was unfeasible; and it demonstrated the inevitability and beneficence of private property and political institutions. But its central theme, the dominance of scarcity in human affairs, presented the theological 'problem of evil' in novel and threatening form. For thirty-five years both the economics and the theology of the Essay were modified and refined: first by Paley, Sumner and Malthus himself, and later by Copleston, Whately and Chalmers. The result was 'Christian Political Economy': an ideological alliance of political economy and Christian theology, congenial to a new 'liberal-conservatism' in the early nineteenth century, which found middle ground between the ultra-tory defence of the ancien régime and a 'radical' repudiation of existing institutions. Professor Waterman analyses this story of the 'intellectual repulse of revolution', and describes the ideological alliance of political economy and Christian theology after 1798.--

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