Notes on Jordan Ballor and Stephen Long on Theology and Economics

Last night I went to a lecture and responding lecture hosted by the Carl F.H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. The lecture, presented by Jordan Ballor, was entitled “Theology and Economics: A Match from Heaven?” The response came from Stephen Long.

Read more about this lecture here.

View video of the lectures here.

The following are some thoughts and notes I wrote down during this discussion.

jordan-ballorJordan Ballor // Thesis – That economics and theology are fundamentally compatible and mutually dependent. A continued separation or divorce between economics and theology would be harmful. We need economically informed theologians and theologically informed economists.
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