It is not surprising then
that virtues are central to the human enterprise. When asked “What is the
purpose of our lives?” 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the son of the Founder of the Bahá’i Faith
responded, ”To acquire virtues.” What is surprising is that for so long,
contemporary economics have relegated virtues to buzz words like “trust in the
institutions” and “consumer confidence” without the spiritual basis required to
re-establish trust once it is broken or rebuild confidence once it is lost.
Bruce Koerber in Part One and Part Two of Voluntary Theocracy places the
virtues where they belong: at the heart of all of our interactions.
If this had been all that
he did, his work would be commendable and worthy of our attention. However,
Bruce Koerber has done much more. In Part Three and Part Four of Voluntary
Theocracy he lays out the principles underlying what he refers to as the Divine
Economy. For all Religious traditions it has been central to our purpose here,
to come to know and love the Divine Order and the One who created it. "I
want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.", (attributed to Albert
Einstein), is an acknowledgement that there is an underlying order in the world
in which we live. It is the goal of science to uncover that order and to make
it accessible and understandable. It is in that spirit that Bruce Koerber’s
Divine Economy is an unfolding scientific endeavour.
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