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Send Lazarus : Catholicism and the Crises of Neoliberalism - Matthew T. Eggemeier

Send Lazarus

Catholicism and the Crises of Neoliberalism

By: Matthew T. Eggemeier, Peter Joseph Fritz

Hardcover | 5 May 2020

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Contrary to Catholicism, Catholic social teaching, and the commitment to live out the mercy of Jesus Christ, today's dominant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. This book's theological critique of neoliberalism begins with recent papal teaching against "economism," proceeds into a historical and theoretical analysis of neoliberalism's rise to global prominence through class warfare, its subtle redefining of human self-understanding via the notion of "human capital," and its formation of an ethos of mercilessness. Central is treatment of four neoliberal-perpetuated and -exacerbated crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation. This entails plumbing the sacrificial and racist depths of neoliberalism. The book offers an antineoliberal systematic theology founded on Trinitarian mercy, a neighbor anthropology and innkeeper ecclesiology, and a politics of mercy, or a civilizational program grounded in yet reimagining the traditional Catholic works of mercy. This coheres with a "playbook" for social transformation that uses the universal destination of goods and abolitionism to direct the corporal works of mercy against the neoliberal utopianism that brought enhanced ecological devastation, slum growth, mass imprisonment, and abuse of migrants. In concert with official Catholic teaching, the Gospel injunction to "be merciful," and hopeful visions of various people of good will, Send Lazarus urges a robust antineoliberal and antiracist politics, which amounts to a Catholic hope for abundant life.
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This book is one of the best theological engagements with economics available. The critique of neoliberalism is spot-on: It is a type of class warfare that does not shrink the state but empowers it to protect the market from the people. The market is sublime and cannot be controlled by people. Neoliberalism is thus a type of theology for a deified market, and Eggemeier and Fritz respond with a compelling Christian theology of a God who wants mercy, not sacrifice. If you want a vision of a world beyond today's suffering and inequality, read this book.---William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University

[T]his book is required reading for those interested in theological responses to neoliberalism or concerned
with social injustice. Highly recommended.

-- "Choice"
To me, devotion to the Sacred Heart always felt like an individualized private devotion until I found myself challenged by a new book by theologians Matthew Eggemeier and Peter Fritz, who propose the Sacred Heart as a public devotion for the 21st century. In Send Lazarus: Catholicism and the Crises of Neoliberalism, they propose the popular devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a counterpractice for resisting the heartlessness of neoliberalism and throwaway culture... Weaving together Pope Francis, St. Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Walter Kasper, and Jesuit Father Karl Rahner, all of whom write of their strong devotion to the Sacred Heart, Eggemeier and Fritz prompted me to reconsider the devotion's relevance in today's world.---Meghan J. Clark, U.S. Catholic

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