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Apr 20, 2015 · In the United States, Christianity might be capitalism’s most impressive conscription so far. In Kevin Kruse’s One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian...
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The people of the high Middle Ages (1100—1300) were agog with wonder at great mechanical clocks, new forms of gears for windmills and water mills, improvements in wagons and carts, shoulder harnesses for beasts of burden, the ocean-going ship rudder, eyeglasses and magnifying glasses, iron smelting and ironwork, stone cutting, and new architectural...
The new code of canon law at the time took care to enshrine as a legal principle that such communities, like cathedral chapters and monasteries before them, could act as legal individuals. As Collins points out, Pope Innocent IV thereby won the sobriquet “father of the modern learning of corporations.” In defending the rights of the new Franciscan ...
As the world enters the third millennium, we may hope that the church, after some generations of loss of nerve, rediscovers its old confidence in the economic order. Few things would help more in raising up all the world’s poor out of poverty. The church could lead the way in setting forth a religious and moral vision worthy of a global world, in w...
Nov 29, 2019 · Capitalism and Christianity were not always at such odds. In his 1904 classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that capitalism’s initial “spirit” may not itself have been Christian, but it was roughly compatible with Christian practices and drew much of its dynamism from this compatibility. Or at least ...
This article by Elisa Owen examines the compatibility of Christian ethics and capitalism, while also exploring the overlap and differences between the disciplines of theology and economic theory.
Under the rubric of its work ethic, contemporary capitalism singles out individuals in a highly moralizing fashion for either praise or blame and forces them into competitive relationships with one another. Economic success or failure becomes one’s individual responsibility.
Jul 10, 2017 · Calvin never accepted capitalism unconditionally. While the first Christian theologian to embrace the use of interest on money—the Catholic Church had long held rules against usury—he also qualified its use.
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Oct 21, 2022 · The purpose of this chapter is to offer a vision on the possible improvement of capitalism, exploring the possibilities of ethical change generated by Christian religious doctrine and experience.
