ABSTRACT
The dominant strategy of relating theology to ethics through Weber’s factvalue distinction and the assumption that what theology contributes is found in the ‘value’ part of that distinction leads theologians in the dominant tradition to emphasize anthropology as the decisive theological theme. This chapter explains that anthropology of liberty. As noted above, the Weberian strategy used by theologians assumes a metaphysics where the atemporal and transcendent is known outside of historical particularities. It is discovered by its relationship to the human creature’s freedom. Thus, I shall argue, a consistent theme in the dominant tradition is that knowledge of God relevant to economic matters is mediated via an analogia libertatis, an analogy from our freedom to God’s freedom.
