The Book of Genesis is the book of origins. I call it Sovereignty and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Genesis.
Formerly, this book was titled: The Dominion Covenant: Genesis. It presents the case for a thoroughly Christians economics-not only the "baptized humanism" that passes for Christian economics in too many of our Christian college classrooms. It also provides biblical answers to these questions, and dozens more.
Have You Ever Wondered:
Why Genesis 1:14-18 is more hated by humanists than Genesis 1:1Why Darwin was successful in winning converts, when others had failed
Why God never intended that Adam should rest on the seventh day
Why Adam refused to rest on the first day as a principle of life
Why gold is money (After all, you can't eat gold.)
Why socialism increases pollution
Why pagan cultures have high interest rates
Why the Bible says that growth can be a blessing
Why the population explosion is morally required
Why the Social Security System is going broke
How old Jacob really was when he left home
(You'll hardly believe it.)What the Bible teaches about personal financial planning
This book is the first volume of a multi-volume commentary on the Bible. It is specifically an economic commentary -- the first one ever published. What does the Bible require of men in the area of economics and business? What does the Bible have to say about economic theory? Does it teach the free market, or socialism, or a mixture of the two, or something completely different? Is there really an exclusively Christian approach to economics?
Modern economic thought is humanistic to the core, whether conservative, libertarian, Keynesian, Marxist, or whatever. All schools of thought begin with the presupposition that man is the measure of all things, and man's mind is capable, apart from biblical revelation to interpret the world correctly. This is why modern economic theory is in the process of disintegration.
This book sets forth the biblical foundations of economics. It offers the basis of total reconstruction of economic theory and practice. It specifically abandons the universal presupposition of all modern schools of economics: Darwinian evolution. Economics must begin with the doctrine of creation.
This book represents a self-conscious effort to rethink the oldest and most rigorous social science in terms of the doctrine of creation. Every social science requires such a reconstruction. The "baptized humanism" of the modern Christian college classroom must be abandoned by all those who take seriously God's command that Christians go forth and subdue the earth (Genesis 1:28). We must begin with the doctrine of creation if we are not to end in total chaos. This is the central message of this book. God's curse of the ground (Genesis 3:17-19) made scarcity an inescapable aspect of man's existence. This is the specifically economic starting point for Christian economics. Apart from these fundamental presuppositions, economics is inescapably irrational and self-contradictory.
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