The Economy of Salvation (eBook)

Luigino Bruni is professor of Economics at Lumsa University, Rome. He studies ethics and economics, philosophy, history of ideas, and the links between economics and theology. In the last years he started to work in the biblical tradition from an anthropological point of view.

Acknowledgments 6
Introduction: A Journey to the End of the Night 7
References 11
Contents 13
Part I: Genesis 15
Chapter 1: Saving Glances in Times of Exile 16
Chapter 2: Counterparts – From the Very Beginning 19
Chapter 3: The Way Home: Inhabiting the Realm of the Human 23
Chapter 4: We Are All Abel’s Heirs 26
Chapter 5: And Noah Rebuilt the Rainbow 30
Chapter 6: Heaven Is Not Above Babel 34
Chapter 7: Towards the Land of the Children 38
Chapter 8: Hagar and Her Many Sisters 41
Chapter 9: Faithfulness Throughout the Unexpected 45
Chapter 10: The Promise Has No Owners 49
Chapter 11: The Word that’s Irreplaceable 53
Chapter 12: The Gate of Heaven Is a Voice 57
Chapter 13: The Way: To State and Cultivate the Alliance 61
Chapter 14: Forgiving Is a Blessing Struggle 65
Chapter 15: Why the World Doesn’t End 69
Chapter 16: Full of Days but not Fulfilled Any More 73
Chapter 17: The Gift of the Dreamy Brother 77
Chapter 18: The Word that Upturns the World 81
Chapter 19: Without Price or Clamour 85
Chapter 20: The Honest Eyes of the Prophet 89
Chapter 21: Brotherhood Cannot Be Bought 93
Chapter 22: Brothers, But Never Without Their Father 97
Chapter 23: Beggars of Blessings 101
Chapter 24: At the End of the Night – and After 105
Part II: Exodus 110
Chapter 25: Love Does Not Give in to Power 111
Chapter 26: Enriching Cries 115
Chapter 27: Thorn Bushes and Liberations 119
Chapter 28: Where Real Freedom Begins 123
Chapter 29: Loyalty Makes Even the Sky Open 127
Chapter 30: The Plagues of Our Invisible Empires 131
Chapter 31: The Greatest Liberation 135
Chapter 32: Gratuitousness Speaks 139
Chapter 33: Salvation Is Dance and Eyes 143
Chapter 34: The Law of Daily Bread 147
Chapter 35: The Different Words of Equals 151
Chapter 36: Words of Heaven and Earth 155
Chapter 37: The Only True Image 159
Chapter 38: The Dowry of the Earth Is Pure Gift 163
Chapter 39: The Treasure of the Seventh Day 167
Chapter 40: The Desire to Entrap God 171
Chapter 41: The Weight of Common Words 175
Chapter 42: The Back and the Face of God 179
Chapter 43: The Veil that Reveals the False Ones 183
Chapter 44: Work Is Already the Promised Land 187
Chapter 45: No Liberator Is Crowned King 191