Download or read book God s Capitalist written by Kathryn W. Kemp and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By following Asa Candler's life, readers have a unique opportunity to visit Atlanta during one of the most critical times in its development, and to see it through the eyes of one of Atlanta's "movers and shakers.""--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Money Greed and God written by Jay W. Richards and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Jay W. Richards and bestselling author of Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late and Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes, defends capitalism within the context of the Christian faith, revealing how entrepreneurial enterprise, based on hard work, honesty, and trust, actually fosters creativity and growth. In doing so, Money, Greed, and God exposes eight myths about capitalism, and demonstrates that a good Christian can be a good capitalist.
Download or read book Capitalism God and a Good Cigar written by Lydia Chavez and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, and many expected that Castro’s revolution—the one that had inspired the Left throughout Latin America and elsewhere—would soon be gone as well. More than a decade later, the revolution lives on, albeit in a modified form. Following the collapse of Soviet communism, Castro legalized the dollar, opened the island to tourism, and allowed foreign investment, small-scale private enterprise, and remittances from exiles in Miami. Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar describes what the changes implemented since the early 1990s have meant for ordinary Cubans: hotel workers, teachers, priests, factory workers, rap artists, writers, homemakers, and others. Based on reporting by journalists, writers, and documentary filmmakers since 2001, each of the essays collected here covers a particular dimension of contemporary Cuban society, revealing what it is like to have lived, for more than a decade, suspended between communism and capitalism. There are pieces on hip hop musicians, fiction writing and censorship, the state of ballet and the performing arts, and the role of computers and the Internet. Other essays address the shrinking yet still sizeable numbers of true believers in the promise of socialist revolution, the legendary cigar industry, the changing state of religion, the significance of the recent influx of money and people from Spain, and the tensions between recent Cuban emigrants and previous generations of exiles. Including more than seventy striking documentary photographs of Cuba’s people, countryside, and city streets, this richly illustrated collection offers keen, even-handed insights into the abundant ironies of life in Cuba today. Contributors. Juliana Barbassa, Ana Campoy, Mimi Chakarova, Lydia Chávez, John Coté, Julian Foley, Angel González, Megan Lardner, Ezequiel Minaya, Daniela Mohor, Archana Pyati, Alicia Roca, Olga R. Rodríguez, Bret Sigler, Annelise Wunderlich
Download or read book God and Business written by Robert R. Richards and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Is a Capitalist written by Roger McKinney and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is capitalism? Where did it come from? Is capitalism moral? Isn't socialism Christian economics? Most people have learned the socialist answers well in school and the media. God is a Capitalist brings together the best economic history, theology and sociology from scholars such as Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek, William Baumol, Adam Smith, Helmut Schoeck, Larry Siedentop, Rodney Stark, John Walton, Lawrence Harrison, Samuel Huntington and many more to give you the accurate history. God created for Israel the first capitalist nation in history with the Mosaic law contained in the first five books of the Bible. Though Moses had been raised and educated by Egyptian royalty, he formed a unique government and an economic system that was the opposite of all he had learned from Egypt. Israel had no human executive, standing army, legislature, or police force. God gave them just 613 laws to guide courts in settling civil disputes. God's law sanctified private property through the commandments to not steal. By "thou shalt not covet," God told people to not even think about theft. Property requires control and only free markets provides the control necessary to make property a reality. Israel would have prospered as no other nation had it remained faithful because it possessed the principles that made the West rich millennia later. But Israel wanted a king and that ended Israel's freedom and free markets. The world suffered in poverty and starvation for 2,500 years until theologians at the University of Salamanca, Spain, rediscovered the economic principles of Moses in the Bible. The Dutch Republic of the 16th century implemented those principles and created the first capitalist nation. It quickly became the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the West with standards of living rising steadily for the first time. England, then the United States, and other Western nations followed the Dutch system. As a result, standards of living in the West have exploded as much as 30 times the levels of the 16th century. Capitalism is the only moral economic system because it is based on Biblical principles. No one invented capitalism; they merely discovered God's principles. Atheists and deists created modern socialism in the early 19th century France as they fabricated a new religion to save mankind through redistribution of wealth and state regulation of business. God is a Capitalist answers criticisms of capitalism from socialists, conservatives and many Christians using the best scholarship available. It shows how Biblical economic principles answer the most vexing problems the world faces today, such as poverty, inequality and pollution.
Download or read book God and Capitalism written by Vern Visick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed in Partnership with The Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Can an economic system receive a response informed by biblical and theological ethics? This collection of five essays, first published in 1991, provides a solid yes to the way "prophetic criticism," rooted in the Hebrew tradition of social justice, can assess the state of today's market economy. In strong contrast to the conservative and Religious Right orientations of the 1980s, the writers of this book "crack the hegemony of neoconservatives in theology." They also provide strong arguments for what H. Richard Niebuhr called a transformational ethic. Norman Gottwald discusses the rise of the Hebrew prophets and their call for economic justice. William Tabb evaluates contemporary political economies in light of the prophetic tradition. Beverly Harrison develops a prophetic approach to current socio-economic troubles of the middle class. Gregory Baum reviews Catholic perspectives on international economic arrangements and trends. And finally, Dorothee Soelle describes the economic and political implications of the Hebrew concepts of the Sabbath and the Year of the Jubilee.
Download or read book Is God a Capitalist written by Gregory B. Grinstead and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory B Grinstead has written an easy to read explanation of why Free Enterprise is the only moral system of finance. In just 12 chapters - 142 pages, he has given Christians a Biblical foundation for conservatism in the 21st Century. He uses the Bible's Morality as a foundation and expands with 20th Century facts to prove that the Bible's principles work in real-life politics. If you have ever wondered if God specifically says what His choice for government and finance is, this book uses God's own words to answer the question. Chapter one starts with Adam working in the Garden of Eden and how this righteous work ethic has been attacked by anti-capitalists. Chapter Two, Three and Four explore God's view of property ownership and the righteousness of free markets. Chapter Three explores God's choice of man's government systems and the specific qualities of that system. Chapter Five uses historical facts to disprove the top 7 complaints against Capitalism. And Chapter Six lists 7 reasons Socialism corrupts men's souls. The real world facts are footnoted and then backed up by scripture. The book ends with Chapter Eleven and Twelve exploring God's warnings about riches and what God's Social Safety Net would look like. The author uses today's statistics when exploring concepts such as; The rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Free Markets are not fair. No one should own the land. Free markets produce the most generosity. This is a timely book because many Christians are confused about the issues of big government and socialism that now dominate our country's politics. Is it right to take from the 1% and give to the poor in our country? God's Words tell us the answer.
Download or read book Jesus Was a Capitalist written by Susie Wells and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Bless You Joe Stalin written by Lewis E. Kaplan and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin has been accused of many things; add to the list his role as the father of modern-day economics. The author traces the evolution of the concept of the Almighty Dollar against the backdrop of the Cold War, demonstrates how individual decisions made.
Download or read book Money Greed and God written by Jay W. Richards and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent scholar reveals the surprising ways that capitalism is actually the best way to follow Jesus' mandates to alleviate poverty and protect the Earth.
Download or read book Green Capitalism the God That Failed written by Richard Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith contends that there is no possible solution to our global ecological crisis within the framework of any conceivable capitalism. The only alternative to market-driven planetary collapse is to transition to a largely planned, mostly publicly-owned economy based on production for need, on democratic governance and rough socio-economic equality, and on contraction and convergence between the global North and South. "Smith brings an impressive command of economics and an engaging conversational style of writing. He explains and illustrates with devastating clarity the key mechanisms of capitalism that force it to grow unendingly ... In the final two chapters, Smith outlines ecological constraints necessary for any post-capitalist economy and describes ecosocialist alternatives to capitalism. The necessary changes are staggering... To that end he outlines a number of attractive and attainable features of an ecosocialist society." David Klein, Director of the climate Science Program at California State University and author of "Capitalism and Climate Change"
Download or read book The Market as God written by Harvey Cox and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Essential and thoroughly engaging...Harvey Cox’s ingenious sense of how market theology has developed a scripture, a liturgy, and sophisticated apologetics allow us to see old challenges in a remarkably fresh light.” —E. J. Dionne, Jr. We have fallen in thrall to the theology of supply and demand. According to its acolytes, the Market is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It can raise nations and ruin households, and comes complete with its own doctrines, prophets, and evangelical zeal. Harvey Cox brings this theology out of the shadows, demonstrating that the way the world economy operates is shaped by a global system of values that can be best understood as a religion. Drawing on biblical sources and the work of social scientists, Cox points to many parallels between the development of Christianity and the Market economy. It is only by understanding how the Market reached its “divine” status that can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity. “Cox argues that...we are now imprisoned by the dictates of a false god that we ourselves have created. We need to break free and reclaim our humanity.” —Forbes “Cox clears the space for a new generation of Christians to begin to develop a more public and egalitarian politics.” —The Nation
Download or read book The Enchantments of Mammon written by Eugene McCarraher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century
Download or read book The Money Cult written by Chris Lehmann and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand and startling work of American history America was founded, we’re taught in school, by the Pilgrims and other Puritans escaping religious persecution in Europe—an austere and pious lot who established a culture that remained pure and uncorrupted until the Industrial Revolution got in the way. In The Money Cult, Chris Lehmann reveals that we have it backward: American capitalism has always been entangled with religion, and so today’s megapastors, for example, aren’t an aberration—they’re as American as Benjamin Franklin. Tracing American Christianity from John Winthrop to the rise of the Mormon Church and on to the triumph of Joel Osteen, The Money Cult is an ambitious work of history from a widely admired journalist. Examining nearly four hundred years of American history, Lehmann reveals how America’s religious leaders became less worried about sin and the afterlife and more concerned with the material world, until the social gospel was overtaken by the gospel of wealth. Showing how American Christianity came to accommodate—and eventually embrace—the pursuit of profit, as well as the inescapability of economic inequality, The Money Cult is a wide-ranging and revelatory book that will make you rethink what you know about the form of American capitalism so dominant in the world today, as well as the core tenets of America itself.
Download or read book God Money written by Charles McDaniel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God & Money confronts the current dominant right wing Republican / evangelical Christian view that unfettered, market-driven capitalism and Christian faith and values are compatible. Drawing on such ethical luminaries as Reinhold Niebuhr, G.K. Chesterton, Peter Berger, and John Paul II, author Charles McDaniel shows that to reverse the current decline in public morality, capitalism must be balanced by enduring religious and moral values. Challenging the captivity of Christian culture by free market, global capitalism, McDaniel joins other Christian ethical visionaries in advocating a "redemptive economy," one that champions individual human dignity, true community, and the moral regeneration of cultural traditions in vital dialectic with the inevitable market capitalism of the contemporary world.
Download or read book God Is Not written by D. Brent Laytham and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes on culturally formed misconceptions about who God is by boldly stating who God is not.
Download or read book Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism written by Kathryn Tanner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining of Weber's work, Kathryn Tanner provocatively reverses this thesis, arguing that Christianity can offer a direct challenge to the largely uncontested growth of capitalism. Exploring the cultural forms typical of the current finance-dominated system of capitalism, Tanner shows how they can be countered by Christian beliefs and practices with a comparable person-shaping capacity. Addressing head-on the issues of economic inequality, structural under- and unemployment, and capitalism's unstable boom/bust cycles, she draws deeply on the theological resources within Christianity to imagine anew a world of human flourishing. This book promises to be one of the most important theological books in recent years.
