God and Stress: Amendments to Creation. Religion in John Stuart Mill

Authors

  • Diego Armando Soto Morera

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/siwo.12-1.3

Abstract

This paper analyses the concept of religion in John Stuart Mill as part of his Principles of Political Economy. According to Mill, it is not the dead of God what is to be expected or propitiated in a liberal society, for religion is not anchored in fear. Instead, the fundamental myth of liberalism would be the rise of a fellowshipof stress, where God requires the partnership of humans, for religion is anchored in desire to amend the creation and the eradication of evil. This perspective will be analyzed in relation with the tradition of Christian theological economy, in which, God’s gifts to mankind must be proliferated, and as prefiguration of the role of religion in the modern world imagined by Mill’s texts.


Keywords: Religion. Liberalism. Energy. Performance. Mill.

Author Biography

Diego Armando Soto Morera

Profesor de la Escuela Ecuménica de Ciencias de la Religión. Se interesa por el estudio de los vínculos entre teología, poder y esfera pública en América Latina. Autor entre otras obras de En carne propia: Religión y biopoder. Una lectura de Michel Foucault. San José: Arlekín, 2015.

Published

2019-08-07

How to Cite

Soto Morera, D. A. (2019). God and Stress: Amendments to Creation. Religion in John Stuart Mill. Siwo Revista De Teología, 12(1), 71-97. https://doi.org/10.15359/siwo.12-1.3

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How to Cite

Soto Morera, D. A. (2019). God and Stress: Amendments to Creation. Religion in John Stuart Mill. Siwo Revista De Teología, 12(1), 71-97. https://doi.org/10.15359/siwo.12-1.3