Item #900919 The Capitalist Spirt: Toward a Religious Ethic of Wealth Creation. Peter L. Berger.
The Capitalist Spirt: Toward a Religious Ethic of Wealth Creation

The Capitalist Spirt: Toward a Religious Ethic of Wealth Creation

San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1990.
First Edition. Hardcover.

First Edition. Complimentary card from the publisher laid in.

Foreword by Robert B. Hawkins, Introduction by Peter L. Berger, Contributions by Robert M. Grant, David Novak, Michael Novak, George Weigel, Walter Block, and Richard John Neuhaus.

“Is capitalism moral? The most productive generator of wealth the world has ever known, capitalism has made explosive economic growth and rising standards of living a reality for millions of people for the first time in history. At the same time, capitalism presents thorny ethical challenges for modern religious thought.

The Capitalist Spirt represented a first search for a religious ethic of wealth creation. The authors explore the roots of anticapitalism in Judaism and Christianity, both of which tend to be concerned with the distribution of wealth rather than its creation. The book also considers the anticapitalist tendency of modern religious thinkers, including those who promote “liberation theology” in developing countries.”

With chapters by Michael Novak, George Weigel, Walter Block Richard John Neuhaus, David Novak, and Robert Grant.

Item #900919
ISBN: 1558151125

6-1/8 x 9-1/4”, green cloth, 192pp, notes, index, contributors.

Fine in modestly rubbed dust wrapper and protective mylar.

Price: $25.00

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