What Does Jerusalem Have to Do with Glasgow?

Christian reasoning about politics and economics is complicated. On the one hand, while the restoration of fallen humanity's relationship with God is of first-order importance, this restoration also has implications for relationships between humans. These implications extend beyond narrow individual piety to include matters of politics, economics, and society. The trick for Christians is to navigate between the Scylla of ignoring the ways the faith might complicate our ideas of political economy and the Charybdis of using Scriptures to justify our already-held policy positions rather than allowing them to form our beliefs. The latest addition to the Cambridge Studies in Law and Christianity is Daniel A. Crane's and Samuel Gregg's edited volume, Christianity and Market Regulation: An Introduction, a welcome addition to serious Christian thinking on these matters.