Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West: Seventeen short treatises of S. Augustine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West
Author: Edward Bouverie Pusey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Seventeen Short Treatises of S. Augustine ...
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Patristic
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Patristic
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Seventeen Short Treatises of S. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Godliness and Greed
Author: Skip Worden
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739139835
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Traditional scholarship often points to the Calvinists and Max Weber's writing on the Protestant ethic as the catalysts to changing Christian attitudes concerning profit-seeking and wealth. Author Skip Worden argues that the seeds of this change occurred centuries earlier. From the beginning of the Commercial Revolution to the fifteenth-century Renaissance, he shows that the predominant Christian thought on economics went through a fundamental shift, becoming favorable toward profit-seeking and wealth-holding. Worden discusses this dramatic change and explains how the general antagonism toward the pursuit of wealth before the Commercial Revolution transformed into Protestant theologians' fighting against the prevailing view of a pro-wealth paradigm during the fifteenth century. Worden contends that the shift away from the Patristic view of wealth occurred well before the addition of the Calvinist spirit of capitalism and the Puritan work ethic into Christian economic vernacular. Drawing on Plato, Cicero, and Augustine, early Protestant theologians unsuccessfully sought to check the rising dominance of the pro-wealth Christian paradigm, which they believed had been pushed too far. These theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth century felt it was too close to advocating love of gain itself, something too close to the sin of greed. How well the Reformation succeeded can be assessed by Worden's insightful concluding study of John D. Rockefeller, the ascetic steward of God's Gold in the form of monopoly.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739139835
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Traditional scholarship often points to the Calvinists and Max Weber's writing on the Protestant ethic as the catalysts to changing Christian attitudes concerning profit-seeking and wealth. Author Skip Worden argues that the seeds of this change occurred centuries earlier. From the beginning of the Commercial Revolution to the fifteenth-century Renaissance, he shows that the predominant Christian thought on economics went through a fundamental shift, becoming favorable toward profit-seeking and wealth-holding. Worden discusses this dramatic change and explains how the general antagonism toward the pursuit of wealth before the Commercial Revolution transformed into Protestant theologians' fighting against the prevailing view of a pro-wealth paradigm during the fifteenth century. Worden contends that the shift away from the Patristic view of wealth occurred well before the addition of the Calvinist spirit of capitalism and the Puritan work ethic into Christian economic vernacular. Drawing on Plato, Cicero, and Augustine, early Protestant theologians unsuccessfully sought to check the rising dominance of the pro-wealth Christian paradigm, which they believed had been pushed too far. These theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth century felt it was too close to advocating love of gain itself, something too close to the sin of greed. How well the Reformation succeeded can be assessed by Worden's insightful concluding study of John D. Rockefeller, the ascetic steward of God's Gold in the form of monopoly.
God's Gold
Author: Skip Worden
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365641392
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Dr. Worden traces the historical shift through the centuries of how Christian thinkers have assumed profit-seeking and wealth are related to the sin of greed. For centuries, the dominant view was that making and accumulating money instantiates the presence of greed. The uncoupling of greed from its assumed external manifestations began to take hold with Aquinas and was complete a century before the Protestant Reformation and its famed work ethic. Rather than viewing the Reformation as pro-wealth, Worden characterizes the reformers broadly as applying the brakes to various degrees in hopes that Christianity would not lapse into accepting greed.In the final chapter, Worden proffers an explanation to account for the shift from the anti- to pro-wealth position. He examines the core of Christian theology and finds a very subtle pro-wealth bias, and provides two remedies.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365641392
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Dr. Worden traces the historical shift through the centuries of how Christian thinkers have assumed profit-seeking and wealth are related to the sin of greed. For centuries, the dominant view was that making and accumulating money instantiates the presence of greed. The uncoupling of greed from its assumed external manifestations began to take hold with Aquinas and was complete a century before the Protestant Reformation and its famed work ethic. Rather than viewing the Reformation as pro-wealth, Worden characterizes the reformers broadly as applying the brakes to various degrees in hopes that Christianity would not lapse into accepting greed.In the final chapter, Worden proffers an explanation to account for the shift from the anti- to pro-wealth position. He examines the core of Christian theology and finds a very subtle pro-wealth bias, and provides two remedies.
A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West: Sermons on selected lessons of the New Testament by S. Augustine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Cyclopaedia Bibliographica
Author: James Darling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1702
Book Description
Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description