Advances in corrosion science and technology

• Record Nr.: UNISA990005815730203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : Plenum Press, 1970-
• ISBN: 978-88-400-1393-0
• Descrizione fisica: volumi ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 620.11223
• Soggetti: Corrosione
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico

Godliness and greed [[electronic resource] ] : shifting Christian thought on profit and wealth / / Skip Worden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788528003321
• Autore: Worden Skip
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010
• ISBN: 1-283-61393-X; 0-7391-3985-1; 9786613926388
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.8/509
• Soggetti: Wealth - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Antecedents: natural wealth and justice -- The strict and moderated anti-wealth schools -- Augustine -- Medieval voluntary poverty -- Aquinas -- The Renaissance -- Luther -- Calvin -- Puritan stewardship -- Rockefeller's business ethic -- The pietistic Puritan -- Conclusion: on the complicity of Christianity.
• Sommario/riassunto: Skip Worden shows the profound transformation of Christian thought on economics from the beginning of the Commercial Revolution to the fifteenth-century Renaissance. Worden explains how the general antagonism toward the pursuit of wealth before the Commercial Revolution turned into Protestant theologians' fighting against the prevailing view of a pro-wealth paradigm during the fifteenth century.