Capitalism and the economy of life (SMR #264)

This Issue of St Mark's review grapples with questions of country, creatures and reparative connectedness. This issue's articles, Written by members of the University of Divinity's network for Religion and Social Policy (RASP) are set on a back ground of Climate change, Covid-19 and the growing separation between a wealthy minority and less well off majority (both locally and internationally). Painting a picture of both hope and sorrow this issue offers a Christian perspective to the conversations on our late stage capitalist world.

Editorial 1
Anne Elvey
The approaching demise of the neoliberal order and its ethical implications 8
Joseph A. Camilleri
Covid-19, the first neoliberal pandemic 21
Stephen Duckett
Pope Francis on “catastrophic” climate change and global inequality 33
Bruce Duncan
Moral compromise in capital investment markets 47
Richard Wilson
Capitalism, death, and idolatry in prophet and loss perspective 60
John Bottomley
Work and wellbeing: The dynamism of the eight-hour day tradition 72
Stephen Ames
Climate, Covid, and the kenotic model 82
Deborah Guess
The inevitable Anthropocene: Human agency and Sabbath rest 95
Mick Pope
Book review 107
Poetry for liminal spaces 107