Religion and economics

These case studies were written first and then sent as a complete set to a second group of authors whose function was to act as a jury. The commentators were asked to read all the case studies and to compose their interpretative essays so as to address the following question: In the light of the evidence you have considered in the case studies, is the attempt to combine into a normative social theory the (putative) insights of theology with the (putative) scientific knowledge supplied by economics either or both intellectually defensible and actually fruitful?