Abbeys 16 , 17
Absolution 82 , 83 , 101 , 102
Administration 5 , 9 , 22 , 46 , 58 , 74 , 99
Affective theology 50 , 89 –96
Agency aspect 65
Agrarian-feudal society 16 –18 , 22 , 29
Altruism 2 , 14 , 69 , 76 , 80 , 81 , 83 , 88 , 96 , 127
American way of life 34
Amor castus (‘pure love’) 79 , 84 –86
Anabaptism (and economics) 58
Analytic and synthetic a posteriori propositions 45
Anglicanism (and economics) 58
Anglo-saxon model 40
Animal spirits 89
Anonymous markets 80 , 89 , 126
Anthropomorphism 26
Apatheia 95
Ascetic Protestantism 30
Authenticity (of texts) 51
Automatisms 92
Autonomous market thinking 1
Banks 22 , 32 , 36 , 40 , 57 , 74 , 83
Banks for the poor (‘monti di pietà’) 70
Behavioral economics 2 , 4 , 61 , 89 , 102 , 104 , 106 , 114 , 124 , 125 , 126 , 128
Benevolence 47 , 72 , 73 , 84 , 88 , 96 , 124
Benevolence of God 83
Biological diversity 66
Biology 48
Bonum commune 18
Bonuses 71
Bounded morality 4 , 41 , 88 , 89 , 97 –98 , 100 , 102 –107 , 127
Bounded rationality 4 , 62 , 88 , 89 –96 , 106 , 127
Bounded willpower 4 , 72 , 88 , 89 , 106 –110 , 114 , 127
Brain (structure) 4 , 89 , 94 , 107
Business loans 23
Capability approach 12
Capitalism 5 , 12 , 20 , 29 –31 , 34 , 39 , 54 , 58 , 64 , 81 , 82 , 119 ,
Capitalism (old and new testament) 12
Capitalism, religion, society and culture (relationship) 54 –58
Capitalist market economy 18 , 30 , 69
Cataphatic - apophatic theology (z. Negative theology)
Charisma 70 –71
Charity 14 , 15 , 20 , 24 –26 , 35 , 36 , 47 , 52 , 58 , 59 , 61 , 124 , 125
Christianity and capitalism (interaction) 32 , 33 , 58
Church fathers (auctoritates; fontes) 50 , 51
City-state (polis) 9
Civilization process 81
Coase theorem 125
Cognition (cognitive faculties) 44 , 50 , 60 , 91 , 93 , 94 , 97
Colonists 36
Common good 18 , 25 , 27 , 45 , 61 , 71 , 118 , 121 , 123
Communism 6
Community of interpretation, communication and reception 51
Complementarity between hard and soft institutions 126
Complexity of human beings 3 , 47 , 63 , 68 , 68 , 88 , 89 , 127
Complexity of reality 75
Concept of prosperity 1 , 8 , 11 , 33 , 59 , 63 , 66 , 74 , 75 , 82 , 115 , 123 , 125
Confession 82 , 99 , 100 –102
Confessionales (libri) 21
Confrontational strategy 99 , 100
Conscious capitalism 119
Consumers 1 , 66 , 67 , 115 , 116 , 124
Consumer loans 23
Citizen (protection) 81
Consistent preferences 42 , 52 , 60 , 62 , 124 , 126
Consumption 11 , 21 , 22 , 38 , 59 , 124
Contemplative life 10
Context of origin of Christian texts 51
Control 24 , 64 , 75 , 103
Cooperation 5 , 63 , 75 , 80 , 125 , 126
Copernican revolution 125
Council of Trent 102
Counterproductiveness 63
Counter-reformation 2 , 22 , 23
Creativity 125
Credere illum’ ‘credere illi’ ‘credere in illum 77 –78
Credibility 76
Credit 40 , 52 , 53 , 59 , 63 , 70 , 76
Credit and liquidity risk 52
Cynicism 103 , 118
Decalogue 11
Decisions 4 , 24 , 41 , 62 , 71 , 75 , 90 –92 , 106 , 108 , 119 , 127
Decision theory 91 , 92
Deism 123
Desires (concupiscentia) 79
Determinism 107
Differentiation of the brain 107
Disrespect (malfeasance) 81
Distribution 16 , 21 , 47 , 116 , 124
Distrust 74 , 96
Diversity 63
Dutch East Indies Company 36
Dutch West Indies Company 36
Dogmatics 48
Double predestination 108
Ecology 66 , 116 , 121
Ecology and economy 116 , 121
Economic relations as social relations 12 , 23 , 113
Economic revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 36
Economic theology 53 , 56 , 58 –59 , 68 –69
Economic theories 3 , 7 , 14 , 32 , 33 , 115 , 120 , 122
Economics and theology (compatibility) 54f
Economics and theology (incompatibility) 44 , 67
Economics as a discipline of science 41 –47
Economics as a science of wealth; prosperity; scarcity and choice 55 , 57 , 63 , 125
Economics and ethics 19 , 20 , 29 , 33 , 42 , 61 , 64 , 65 ,
Economy (household) 9 –10
Economy (in New testament) 9 –10
Economy (in Old testament) 10 –11
Economy as a partnership 13 , 15 , 16 , 52 , 53 , 63
Economy ‘subject to theology’ 1 , 16 –22 , 55 , 58
Efficiency 19 , 39 , 45 , 65 , 70 , 71 Ego threats 119
Egotism 113
E-learning centre 28
Emotional intelligence 119
Emotions 45 , 62 , 75 , 91 –95 , 118 –119
Endogenous preferences 80
Enlightenment 3 , 7 , 27 , 29 , 35 , 36 , 48 , 68 , 128
Environmental economics 38 , 66 , 67 , 98 , 116
Envy 49 , 62 , 63 , 90 , 97 , 103 , 115
Erasmus Economics and Theology Institute 5
Erasmus School of Economics 5
Erasmus School of Philosophy 5
Ethics 8 , 19 , 33 , 42 , 48 , 53 , 56 , 65 , 69 , 75 , 105 , 125 , 128
Etsi deus non daretur 27
Exegesis 13 , 14 , 53
Exogenous forces 80
Expectations theory 23
External effects 43 , 52 , 125 , 128
External triggers 42 , 83 , 84 , 88 , 104
Faith 13 , 34 , 48 , 49 , 51 , 63 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 108 , 124 , 126 , 127
Fall 11 , 24 , 105
Falsarius (fraudster) 104
Fear 11 , 31 , 73 , 78 , 84 –87 , 88 , 94 , 106 , 110 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 126 , 130
Fear of God 83 , 84 –87
Feudalism 5
Fraud 2 , 8 , 9 , 15 , 21 , 35 , 89 , 90 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106
Free will 24 , 72 , 107 , 108 –111 , 112 , 113 , 114
Freedom 1 , 12 , 25 , 26 , 35 , 47 , 72 , 73 , 81 , 107 –114 , 117
Friendship 25 , 72 , 76 , 84 , 96
Fudge factor 97 , 99 , 106 , 111
Functions of values 74
Fundamental theology 48
Godonomics 59
God’s sovereignty, power, providence 25 , 26 , 72
God’s inscrutability 49 , 110 and passim
God’s justice and mercy 77 , 103 and passim
Goldschmeding Foundation 5
Goods (scarcity, production, consumption) 7 , 8 , 9 , 11 , 15 , 17 , 21 , 22 , 24 , 38 , 40 , 44 , 57 , 59 , 100 , 115 , 116 , 124
Gothic 17
Grace (theology of) 73 , 106 –114 ,
Gratuity 69 –73
Great Depression 1 , 90
Greed 9 , 11 , 14 , 15 , 23 , 25 , 26 , 35 , 71 , 105 , 110 , 121
Gross domestic product 116
Guilds 17 , 18 , 27
Habitus 22 , 70
Happiness 9 , 10 , 13 , 20 , 25 , 57 , 71 , 88 , 94 , 96 , 110 , 114 –121 , 127
Happiness (economic return) 116 , 118
Happiness (measurability) 114 , 117
Happiness (preconditions) 114 –121
Happiness as an economic quantity 119
Happines as a result of virtue 119 –120 , 122
Hatred 95
Hawkers 17
Helpfulness 3 , 25 , 43
Historicity of scripture 46
History and history of salvation 2 , 77 , 100
Homo cooperans 63
Homo economicus 2 , 3 , 4 , 42 , 43 , 52 , 57 , 59 , 60 –64 , 69 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 93 , 108 , 120 , 125 , 126 , 127
Homo rationalis 57 , 125
Homo reciprocitans 69
Hope 60 , 75 , 77 , 86 , 108 , 128 –130
Household (oĩkos) 9
Human autonomy 1 , 27 , 72 , 73 , 76
Human being as creative being 63 , 82 , 97
Human being as image of God 26 , 83 , 124
Humanities 48 , 126
Hypocrisy (falsitas) 104
Imagination 59 , 129
Inadequacy of the human mind 49 , 89 –95 , 117 , 127
Income 9 , 10 , 116 , 118 , 129 , 130
Indifference 12
Individual responsibility 12 , 14 , 19 , 52 , 65 , 72 –73 , 79 , 82 , 83 , 109 , 110
Individualism 27 , 113
Inductive and deductive method 45 , 47 , 49
Indulgence 31 , 82 , 83
Industrial Revolution 63 , 114 , 126
Influence (of religion on social and economic practices) 12 , 27 , 29 –33 , 37 , 39 , 62 , 113
Innovations (technological) 17
Innovations (economic) 4 , 69 , 70 , 74 , 128
Innovations (financial) 64
Intention 3 , 23 , 51 , 68 , 75 , 89 , 101 , 107 , 126
Interchangeability 52 , 126
Interdisciplinary research 3 , 29 , 37 , 39 , 46 , 48 , 57 , 60 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 87
Interdisciplinary research by theologians and economists 46 , 48 –54 , 56 , 57 , 60 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 131
Interest 18 , 20 , 21 , 22 –25 , 35 , 36 , 39 , 40 , 54 , 55 , 124
International trade 8 , 36 , 41
Intersubjective values 52
Intrinsic dignity 26
Intuition 91 , 94 , 114
Investors 22 , 23
Irrational component in decision-making 75 , 90
Irrigation methods 70
Islam 32 , 33 , 59
Jealousy, see Envy
Jealousy of trade 63
Job satisfaction 119
Judaism 2 , 7 , 32 , 76
Justice 9 , 18 , 19 –22 , 24 , 26 , 53 , 57 , 66 , 67 , 75 , 81 , 86 , 99 , 108 , 116 , 118 , 124 , 126
Justice or fairness 113
Justice of God 49 , 77 , 86 , 103
Layers of redaction (of texts) 51
Leadership 46 , 48 , 60 , 70
Leiden university library 1
Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA) 69
Liturgical studies 48
Logic of merit 113
Logical empiricism 44
Love 2 , 23 , 25 , 47 , 57 , 61 , 72 , 73 , 75 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 84 –88 , 94 –96 , 98 , 105 , 108 , 125 , 126 , 127 , 131
Love (as a way of knowing) 96
Mammon of injustice 14
Man as a cooperative being 63
Market equilibrium 25
Market failure 74 , 80 , 90
Market forces 1 , 38 , 129
Mathematics 39 , 42 , 43 , 48 , 91 , 93
Maximisation of own interests 44 , 47 , 60 , 65 , 70 , 71 ,
Memory (‘memoria’) 94 , 107
Mercantilism 7 , 8 , 27 , 28 , 35 , 63 , 89
Mercy (attribute of God) 29 , 49 , 77 , 111 , 126
Mercy (man) 12 , 29 , 126
Meritocracy 15 , 72 , 112 –113
Moderation 9 , 119 –122 , 125
Modest Behavior Scale (MBS) 119
Modesty 73 , 119 , 121
Monetarists 124
Money passim
Money as a means of exchange and payment 8
Moral crisis 116
Moral reciprocity 2 , 53 , 63 , 69 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 83 , 88 , 125 , 126
Moralism 33 , 125
Motives 3 , 4 , 21 , 24 , 31 , 33 , 39 , 61 , 62 –65 , 68 , 69 , 80 , 81 , 83 , 88 , 89 , 99 , 105 , 124 , 126 , 129
Mutual sympathy 47 , 62 , 97
Naivety 27 , 37 , 114
Nation-state 10 , 40 , 63
Natural law 20
Natural liberty 81
Need principle 12
Ne quid nimis (‘nothing too much, everything in moderation’) 120 –121
Negative theology 50 , 92 , 93 , 127
Ne-gotium 10 , 15
Neo-classical economy 43 , 45 , 46 , 115 , 120 , 124
Neoscholastics 51
Neuroscience 94 , 107 , 117
Nouvelle théologie 51
Oikonomia as ‘cooperation science’ 9
Opportunism 13 , 60 , 81
Orthodoxy (and economy) 101 , 114
Otium 10 , 15
Outcrowding 79 –86
Ownership 9 , 16 , 40 , 115
Paradise, paradisiacal 11 , 114
Pareto criterion 42 , 43 , 115
Passions (perturbationes) 94 , 95
Pathè 95
Pelagian conflict, see Theology of grace
Penitential books 101
Pentecostalism (and economy) 58
Philia, disinterested friendship 76
Philosophy 2 , 5 , 7 , 9 , 32 , 46 , 48 , 120 , 125 , 128
Pistis (faith, trust) 74 –79
Political economy 9 , 114
Post-keynesians 124
Potential added value 63
Poverty 11 , 17 , 18 , 21 , 59 , 67 , 70 , 114 , 116 , 120
Poverty movements 17 , 18 , 21
Predestination 72 , 107 , 108 , 110
Private property 11 , 21
Production 8 , 21 , 30 , 38 , 59 , 60 , 113 , 123 , 124
Profit 15 , 25 , 30 , 59 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 74 , 8 , 90 , 103 , 105 , 118
Property 7 –12 , 16 , 18 , 19 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 59 , 81
Prosperity 1 , 8 , 11 , 33 , 59 , 63 , 66 , 74 , 75 , 82 , 85 , 115 , 123 , 125
Protestantism (reformed) (and economics) 29 –31
Public finance 22
Punishment (by God) 15 , 83 –86 , 102
Quantitative production growth 60
Rational choice model 20 , 33 , 44 , 55 , 61 , 62 , 91 , 125 , 126
Reciprocity (economic principle) 69 , 80 , 88
Reciprocity of revenues and costs 63 , 74
Reciprocity as value 2 , 53 , 63 , 69 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 83 , 88 , 125 , 126
Redactional layers of early Christian texts 51
Reformers 23 , 30
Relational economy 53 , 88 , 89 , 126
Relational view of humankind 53 , 97
Relations 2 , 10 , 12 , 23 , 24 , 26 , 28 , 48 , 68 , 102
Relationships based on trust 13 , 78 , 82
Religion passim
Renaissance 26 , 27
Respect for others 82 , 98 , 99
Restitution 39
Rhineland model 40
Risks 3 , 52
Rule of law 81
Salve regina 118
Satisficing 91
Scarcity 54 , 57 , 63 , 66 , 114 , 115
Scholastic authors 8 , 16 –24
Scripture (objectum materiale) 48 , 50 , 51 , 54
Scripture as norma normans non normata 7 , 12 , 46 , 50
Seculum 118
Self-centralisation 75 , 95
Self-evaluation 38 , 99 , 100
Self-esteem 119
Self-improvement 12 , 100
Self-interest 22 , 25 , 27 , 41 , 47 , 57 , 60 , 61 , 65 , 71 , 75 , 77 , 78 , 82 , 123 , 124 , 125
Selfishness 25 , 65
Self-knowledge 98 , 100
Self-love 25 , 47 , 125
Separability assumption 81
Serfs 16
Sermon on the Mount 11
Sermon von dem Ablasz vnnd Gnade 83
Simultaneity of interests
Slavery 34 –37
Slave traders 34 –37
Social interaction 71 , 80
Social justice 66 , 116
Social protection 81
Social psychology 48
Social values 126
Sociology 20 , 29 , 42 , 48
Solidarity 35 , 57 , 69 , 82
Specula (mirrors) 99
State economy 9
Suffering 55 , 85 , 95 , 118 , 122
Sustainability 2 , 129
System 1 , System 2 (Kahneman) 91 , 92
Systematic theology 48
Templeton Charity Foundation 5
Theological claims 45 , 58
Theological economics 54 –60
Theological virtues 58 , 75
Theologoumena 26 , 111
Theology passim
Theology of grace, see Grace
Theory of justice 113
Thomism 23
Thomistic-scholastic school of Salamanca 23 , 24
Timor servilis (‘slavish’, ‘immature fear’)
Tithe system 11
Tradition (religious, theological) 10 , 14 , 21 , 22 , 25 , 27 , 33 , 51 52 , 79 , 130
Transactions 4 , 15 , 19 , 20 , 27 , 35 , 39 , 47 , 52 , 53 , 65 , 69 , 78 , 80 , 89 , 126
Transactions versus relations 4 , 9 , 26
Trust 2 , 3 , 4 , 13 , 25 , 41 , 52 , 63 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 74 –79 , 82 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 104 , 116 , 117 , 125 , 126 , 128
Unbounded willpower 109
United Nations 116
United States 34 , 38 , 129
University of Massachusetts 79
University of Paris, Sorbonne 18
Urban capitalist society 17 , 18 , 29
Urge to control 75
Usury 15 , 19 , 20 , 23 , 24 , 35 , 39 , 41 , 84
Utility ethics 125
Utility thinking 26 , 33 , 43 , 65 , 75
Values 13 , 14 , 33 –35 , 38 , 57 , 125 , 126
Valuing diversity 63
Vatican II 37
Verification criterion 45
Via amoris 96
Virtue passim
Virtue and the market passim
Visceral influences 106
Visio beatifica 117
Voluntas 107
Vulnerability 100 , 118
Wages (Old and New Testaments) 12
Wall Street crash 1
Wealth 7 , 8 , 9 , 17 , 21 , 23 , 26 , 30 , 42 , 43 , 47 , 57 , 60 , 61 , 63 , 103 , 113 –115 , 118 , 120 , 122 , 124 , 125
Wealth in the Old Testament 11
Wealth in the New Testament 11 –12
Weber thesis 29 –31
Welfare (attitude towards) 71 , 116
Welfare theory 1 , 8 , 47
Wiener Kreis 44 , 48
Wool trade 17
Zero-sum game 63