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The British Disease: Economic Cart before Spiritual Horse
Author(s) -
Long Ernest
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1986.tb01785.x
Subject(s) - socialism , capitalism , christianity , state socialism , cart , state (computer science) , religious studies , philosophy , political science , sociology , political economy , history , law , politics , communism , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
‘Liberation theology’ has been used by Christian socialism to denigrate capitalism. The Rev. Ernest Long responds by confuting socialism with arguments derived from the Bible itself. The aggrandisement of the state, he suggests, threatens the moral basis of Christianity.