God and the Evil of Scarcity: Moral Foundations of Economic Agency

by Albino Barrera and Albino Barrera O.P.

Book Overview

In his celebrated Essay on Population, Thomas Malthus raised the puzzle of why a benevolent Creator would permit material scarcity in human existence. Albino Barrera revisits this question using Thomas Aquinas's metaphysics of participation and Sacred Scripture's invitation to covenant fidelity and kingdom discipleship as analytical lenses with which to examine the seeming incongruity of scarcity in God's providence. Barrera concludes that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268021937
• ISBN13: 9780268021931
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"