New Polity

Exploring the impact of understanding the kingship of Christ on behavior in politics and economics, the divine design of the economy through the lenses of Sabbath and Jubilee, the pursuit of an ideal societal structure based on tradition and conversion, ancient scriptures' views on cities, the Catholic Church's social teachings on wages and family, challenges of post-Christian society, concepts of redemption and Jubilee, and property ownership through a familial lens.

Exploring the choices between slavery and the market, the impact of possessing new technology, the concept of being a 'god' with access to new technologies, the role of primitive accumulation in the development of capitalism, the contradictory portrayal of work in history, the concept of idleness and its impact on the feudal period, the economic analysis of Adam Smith and the power of the state, the influence of capitalism on work and leisure, the origins of game laws and the impact of land enclosure on society, the definition of socialism as state capitalism, and the concept of scarcity and its influence on the value of goods.

Citations:Jerome, Letter to Demetriades PL [22: 1118]Bon., AP, VII.36,Augustine, Retractions 12.262 Clement 20:4 from The Apostolic FatherLeo I, Letter 167 PL [54:1206]Chrysostom "Homily 27 on John" PGChrysostom: Sur l'incomprehensibilte de DieuTheo., El. Pm., 1117-1118 (Loeb edn.)