Preface to the U.S. Edition xi

Introduction 1

Part. I. Of Politics

1. Power 29

2. The End of Modernity 43

Part II. A Treatise on Money

3. Ecology of Money 73

4. Politics of Money 123

5. Theology of Money 165

Part III. Of Theology

6. Metaphysics and Credit 201

7. The Price of Credit 225

8. A Modest Proposal: Evaluative Credit 241

Conclusion. Of Redemption 257

Notes 263

Bibliography 281

Index 293

“Goodchild is to be commended for writing a political theology that makes a robust, concrete, and theoretically viable proposal for how to implement actual economic reform. Unlike most political theologies, this work is neither utopian nor separatist: it is not limited to a future eschatological kingdom, nor is it limited to the community of faith.” — David W. Congdon, Reviews in Religion and Theology

“It is doubtful that many economists or bankers, those mechanics who tinker with the rates and ratios of the market machine, will read this book, which is to be lamented. Goodchild goes beyond such tinkering to ask what the machine is, why it does what it does, and how what it is doing should be evaluated. In this way his book stands in the tradition of thinkers such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes as they reflected on the nature of the good, the economic, and the political, extending their work through modernity to post modernity. Goodchild demands much of the reader, and these pages will not readily turn without a reasonable grasp of economics and philosophy, but the result is a profound and highly significant contribution to the understanding of money.” — Kent Van Til, Studies in Christian Ethics

“Theology of Money by Philip Goodchild is a densely argued and multilayered treatise that excavates the theological power incarnated in the global monetary system. . . . There is a lot to learn from in this book.” — Review of Politics

“Goodchild has provided a powerful example of forgiveness as the creation of new value. His account of money puts great demands on our ability to think creatively about money and about value. His tremendously invigorating political, economic and theological proposals for transforming credit in society could produce many important and needed transformations. Such transformations are absolutely necessary if we are going to live in a world where life has many possibilities and people live their lives with wealth. . .” — Char Roone Miller, Theory & Event

“Goodchild’s work is a tour de force of conceptual analysis, engaging A. Smith and C. Schmitt among others, en route to arguing that theology must counter the conscription of time, attention, and demands made by money with its own vision of social existence.” — Myles Werntz, Religious Studies Review

“Philip Goodchild is the most constructive and original philosopher of religion in the UK. . . . What Goodchild offers is both a critique of money and a theology of money, and part of what makes this book so fascinating is the significance of calling what he is doing here a theology of money as opposed to simply a critique of money. . . . Theology of Money . . . sketches a radical theological vision of credit that promises the potential for a future theology as well as a future humanity. . . . [Goodchild] provides vital resources of thought and capital for theological and practical human beings to put to work.” — Clayton Crockett, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

“Recommended. Graduate students and faculty/researchers.” — F. G. Kirkpatrick, Choice

"Philip Goodchild’s Theology of Money may be one of the more important works in contemporary scholarship on issues of economy, politics, divinization, and the importance of valuation. . . . [It] provides a deep analysis of money in the contemporary landscape and confronts the cracks and fissures in the modern theology and metaphysic of money with a strong tentative, future-oriented economic proposal." — Taylor Weaver, Freedom in Orthodoxy blog

“Goodchild is to be commended for writing a political theology that makes a robust, concrete, and theoretically viable proposal for how to implement actual economic reform. Unlike most political theologies, this work is neither utopian nor separatist: it is not limited to a future eschatological kingdom, nor is it limited to the community of faith.” —David W. Congdon, Reviews in Religion and Theology

“It is doubtful that many economists or bankers, those mechanics who tinker with the rates and ratios of the market machine, will read this book, which is to be lamented. Goodchild goes beyond such tinkering to ask what the machine is, why it does what it does, and how what it is doing should be evaluated. In this way his book stands in the tradition of thinkers such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes as they reflected on the nature of the good, the economic, and the political, extending their work through modernity to post modernity. Goodchild demands much of the reader, and these pages will not readily turn without a reasonable grasp of economics and philosophy, but the result is a profound and highly significant contribution to the understanding of money.” —Kent Van Til, Studies in Christian Ethics

“Theology of Money by Philip Goodchild is a densely argued and multilayered treatise that excavates the theological power incarnated in the global monetary system. . . . There is a lot to learn from in this book.” —Review of Politics

“Goodchild has provided a powerful example of forgiveness as the creation of new value. His account of money puts great demands on our ability to think creatively about money and about value. His tremendously invigorating political, economic and theological proposals for transforming credit in society could produce many important and needed transformations. Such transformations are absolutely necessary if we are going to live in a world where life has many possibilities and people live their lives with wealth. . .” —Char Roone Miller, Theory & Event

“Goodchild’s work is a tour de force of conceptual analysis, engaging A. Smith and C. Schmitt among others, en route to arguing that theology must counter the conscription of time, attention, and demands made by money with its own vision of social existence.” —Myles Werntz, Religious Studies Review

“Philip Goodchild is the most constructive and original philosopher of religion in the UK. . . . What Goodchild offers is both a critique of money and a theology of money, and part of what makes this book so fascinating is the significance of calling what he is doing here a theology of money as opposed to simply a critique of money. . . . Theology of Money . . . sketches a radical theological vision of credit that promises the potential for a future theology as well as a future humanity. . . . [Goodchild] provides vital resources of thought and capital for theological and practical human beings to put to work.” —Clayton Crockett, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

“Recommended. Graduate students and faculty/researchers.” —F. G. Kirkpatrick, Choice

"Philip Goodchild’s Theology of Money may be one of the more important works in contemporary scholarship on issues of economy, politics, divinization, and the importance of valuation. . . . [It] provides a deep analysis of money in the contemporary landscape and confronts the cracks and fissures in the modern theology and metaphysic of money with a strong tentative, future-oriented economic proposal." —Taylor Weaver, Freedom in Orthodoxy blog

“The power of the analysis, the energy of the text, the passions it excites in the reader, and its call upon us to think beyond the limits in which most philosophical, theological, economic, and cultural thought is enclosed make Theology of Money an indispensable book.” — William E. Connolly, author of, Capitalism and Christianity, American Style

“Well written and very well researched, Theology of Money is a remarkable and very important book; there is nothing else like it currently in print. Philip Goodchild’s thesis is, in a way, startlingly simple: the universal sway of money exists instead of a universal sway of an ethics and a religion.” — Catherine Pickstock, co-editor of, Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology

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