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Christian Economic Ethics : History and Implications /

What does the history of Christian views of economic life mean for economic life in the twenty-first century? Here Daniel Finn reviews the insights provided by a large number of texts, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subjec...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Finn, Daniel K., 1947- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction. Introduction : well water deep down
  • How a living tradition means
  • From the Bible to the Reformation. The Hebrew Scriptures
  • The New Testament
  • The early church : Christian faith and concern for the poor
  • The early church : patristic teaching on ownership and wealth
  • The beginnings of monastic life
  • The Medieval period : Thomas Aquinas and natural law ethics
  • The Medieval period : Thomas Aquinas on four economic issues
  • The Protestant Reformation
  • Resources for Interpretation. The development of moral teaching
  • Engaging controversies today
  • What we should and should not learn from economics
  • Modern church teaching on economic life. Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI
  • Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI
  • Contemporary Protestant thought on economic life
  • Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI
  • Coming to conclusions. Principles for an economic ethic today
  • Implications for an economic ethic today
  • Society, government, and market : getting the relationships right
  • Conclusion.