ABSTRACT

The preceding chapters offer a critical analysis of various representatives of differing traditions and of schools within traditions. I have traced, developed, and critiqued the works of some representative theologians to see how they respond to this question. I have little doubt that not all those represented here will be pleased with my particular reading of their work or my placement of them within a given tradition. Even though their proffered economic prescriptions vary, I found sufficient commonalty within these various traditions, based on the three main strategies of values, protest, and virtues. What unites all three traditions is their concern to make theology credible and the recognition that to accomplish this theology must have something to say about economic exchanges.