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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953427603321

Autore

Worden Skip

Titolo

Godliness and greed : shifting Christian thought on profit and wealth / / Skip Worden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md. : , : Lexington Books, , 2010

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2025

ISBN

979-82-16-22415-0

1-9787-4300-9

1-283-61393-X

0-7391-3985-1

9786613926388

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Disciplina

261.8/509

Soggetti

Wealth - Christianity - History of doctrines

Wealth - Religious aspects

European history

History of religion

Religious ethics

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.