A history of Capitalism as inherited theology
From God to Market is not a claim that Capitalism borrowed religious language. It is the opposite claim: that Capitalism is a religion that adopted economic language — a secularized theological structure rooted in medieval Christian cosmology. The argument follows Walter Benjamin’s 1921 fragment Kapitalismus als Religion, read alongside Carl Schmitt’s political theology and Giorgio Agamben’s work on the economy of glory.
Christian theology inherited the idea of a universal debt — and promised its reset, its Jubilee, at the end of time. Capitalism keeps the debt, but defers the reset indefinitely. That deferral is the cosmological condition that makes indefinite accumulation possible: not a broken system, but one working exactly as designed.
The series moves from Homeric mythology to the technological Singularity, published serially, one essay at a time. Capitalism and Market appear capitalized throughout — a theoretical choice: within this argument, they stand alongside God as names of the same order of thing.
Part One — Before the Market
Cosmologies without Capitalism