The problem of wealth
Subtitle: a Christian response to a culture of affluence
By: Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Maryknoll, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781626982383
Subjects: Doctrines; Wealth; Christianity; Poverty; Economics; Doctrinal Theology; Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem is wealth, not poverty; title: Introducing the problem of wealth; title: The centrality of economics in Christian theology; title: Economism and the ethic of scarcity; title: When, why, and how? The boundary between economics and theology; title: The current dominant forms of wealth creation and the ethic of scarcity; title: Digging for roots to nourish an ethic of enough; title: Social trinity, love, and the ethic of enough; title: Extensive roots: ecocentric and theocentric visions of economy from a wider variety of the world's great faith traditions; title: Increasing the theological and moral imagination of the U.S. middle class; title: Real people embodying different values; title: Parables for sharing; title: Concluding observations and a call to action.