Freedom and capitalism
By: John W. Robbins
Publisher: Trinity Foundation
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Unicoi, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
ISBN-13: 9781891777158
Subjects: Capitalism; Christianity; Economics; Christianity and culture; Christianity and politics; Reformed Church; Économie politique; Christianisme et politique; Église réformée
Description: The relationship between Christianity, freedom, and capitalism has been a subject of scholarly study for centuries. In this volume, John Robbins argues that political and economic freedom are the results of Biblical Christianity. Political freedom and capitalism arose in Northwestern Europe and North America after the Christian Reformation of the 16th Century, and they are unique in world history. The nations and peoples that heard and accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ as proclaimed by the Reformers quickly became free and prosperous on a scale previously unimaginable. Some historians and economists have denied any causal connection between Christianity, freedom, and capitalism, but they are able to deny this connection only by ignoring clear philosophical, economic, legal, sociological, and historical evidence demonstrating that Christianity is the source of capitalism. Laissez-faire capitalism, which is the only moral economic system, is in fact the economic system of Christianity. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Relation of Church and state / Charles Hodge; title: The chicken's homecoming / John Whitehead; title: The coming Caesars / John Whitehead; title: Not yours to give / Edward Ellis.