Eschatological Economics: Trinity, Liturgy and Capitalism 

This seminar will discuss economics in an eschatological context, narrating economics as the reciprocal life of the Triune God that is made available to all through the liturgical community, the Church. This will also entail a critique of capitalism as the heresy that extracts economics from the social life of God and his people, which commodifies the nature of human exchange. The permeating logic of this seminar will be that Jesus is the Liturgy of God, and our actions are either a participation in the One Liturgy or the denial thereof.

Bio:

Billy Daniel is Director of Christian Education in St. John’s Episcopal Church, Tampa, Florida. He has a M.T.S. from Duke University and is currently working on a PhD in Philosophical Theology at the University of Nottingham. His primary concerns and interests are in liturgical theology and practice, both throughout history and current, as being the foundation of God’s relation to humans and humanity’s interrelation with God. He understands all aspects of life, economic, social, political, etc, as intelligible only within the sacramental body that is the Church, which must participate in communal reciprocity with one another in God, understanding the Trinity as paradigmatic for this exchange, as no one aspect of life is separable from the other.