The Dissertation of Christopher Hutton as presented to Harrison-Middleton in 2017

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 17, 2017

17. Modern State of Faith and Economics

After spending over 2000 years going over the best and brightest in economics and theology, we come to the late 20th century/early 21st century, the decades of Reaganomics, the Religious Right, the fall of the Soviet Union, and huge shifts in religious and…

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 16, 2017

12. Adam Smith on Religion

While economic thought is nothing new or even that modern, a properly mathematical approach to the topic was not established until Adam Smith and his Wealth of Nations. The majority of the book is fixated on exploring and describing various aspects of the British economy…

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 16, 2017

10. John Locke and Dividing the Faith

After More and Luther, the European economy flourished and expanded quickly, the strands of Imperial Colonialism expanding the continent’s influence across the world along with the spread of mercantilism (defined as ‘governmental regulation of a nation’s economy…

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 16, 2017

4. Augustine and the Economy

In the centuries following the rise of the Early Church, dozens of thinkers and writers have taken prominence, offering many interpretations of Christ and his apostles’ words. Some of the teachings would greatly influence the Catholic tradition and thought process. But only a…

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 17, 2017

20. Free Market Economics Without Faith

As we close out our exploration of the modern day relationship of economics and religion, we look at four major political relations. In this piece, we look at Capitalism without Faith, or Objectivism/Libertarianism.

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 16, 2017

7. Thomas More and the Roots of Religious Communism

With all the interactions with heady thinkers like Aquinas and Augustine, one would expect our approach to economic thought to continue to complicate itself as time moved on and more complex mathematical systems were implemented in the…

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 16, 2017

6. Aquinas and the Right of Fair Prices

While Thomas Aquinas provided the majority of his work in broad strokes, defining the relations of natural law to the daily and larger economic practices, he does some work in the Summa Theologica, his primary text, to better define particular aspects of…

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 17, 2017

21. Free Markets with Faith

As we close out our exploration of the modern day relationship of economics and religion, we look at four major political relations. In this piece, we look at Capitalism with Faith, or the Religious Right (RR).

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 16, 2017

11. Smith’s Invisible Hand

One of the biggest concepts that underlies every single one of Smith’s works is the idea of the Invisible Hand, this notion of inhuman forces pushing and causing humanity to make decisions in its favor. Many scholars interpret this as an Enlightenment attempt to describe God in…

Christopher Hutton in God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

Oct 16, 2017

9. Luther Wants More? Contrasting the Utopia with Vocation

Martin Luther and Thomas More may never have met in real life, but their thoughts intertwined. When Luther published his 95 Theses, he was quickly challenged and declared a heretic and eventually brought before the court system…

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God and Money are Frenemies? Following the Interweaving Threads of Economic and Religious Thought

An Academic Online Dissertation that explores the relationship of economic thought with religious thought. A publication with the explicit purpose of publishing the author’s final capstone project for Harrison-Middleton University

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