This paper explores the need for theology-oriented economic policymaking, as well as its possible sacred and secular ends. To facilitate this exploration, America’s Social Gospel movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is examined as a historical case of theology-oriented economic...

Once dominant, theology has not played any significant role in mainstream economics discourse for more than a century. Yet, the economics discipline has much to gain by devoting more scholarly attention to theology-informed economics inquiry that is neither the reserve of economists who believe...

For the interdisciplinary field of theological economics to grow and flourish, four questions must be answered. First, whose theology and scholarship are relevant? Second, to what ends may theological economics be undertaken? Third, does theology support its own use and application in economics?...