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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 America,...
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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 ...
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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...
Modern capitalism is certainly no less deserving of scrutiny by Christians. I will attempt to contribute to that dialogue here. With certain significant caveats in place, which I will name, I find that capitalism is largely compatible with Christian ethics. Christian Ethics and Market Economic Activity. What do we mean by capitalism?
In Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism, I argue that life projects like these, enforced by the current organization of capitalism, are dehumanizing but can be countered by renewed spiritual projects of similar depth and scope whereby one strives to orient one’s life to God.
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.
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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.
