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Godliness and Greed
Skip Worden
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Description for Godliness and Greed
Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
Traditional scholarship often points to the Calvinists and Max Weber’s writing on the Protestant ethic as the catalysts to changing Christian attitudes concerning profit-seeking and wealth. Author Skip Worden argues that the seeds of this change occurred centuries earlier. From the beginning of the Commercial Revolution to the fifteenth-century Renaissance, he shows that the predominant Christian thought on economics went through a fundamental shift, becoming favorable toward profit-seeking and wealth-holding. Worden discusses this dramatic change and explains how the general antagonism toward the pursuit of wealth before the Commercial Revolution transformed into Protestant theologians' fighting against the prevailing view of ... Read more
Traditional scholarship often points to the Calvinists and Max Weber’s writing on the Protestant ethic as the catalysts to changing Christian attitudes concerning profit-seeking and wealth. Author Skip Worden argues that the seeds of this change occurred centuries earlier. From the beginning of the Commercial Revolution to the fifteenth-century Renaissance, he shows that the predominant Christian thought on economics went through a fundamental shift, becoming favorable toward profit-seeking and wealth-holding. Worden discusses this dramatic change and explains how the general antagonism toward the pursuit of wealth before the Commercial Revolution transformed into Protestant theologians' fighting against the prevailing view of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739139837
SKU
V9780739139837
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About Skip Worden
Skip Worden is a researcher and writer. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and M.Div. from Yale Divinity School.
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