God & Money

Charles McDaniel, a successful business entrepreneur, now focuses on the interplay of economics, religion, and values. He is visiting professor of Church-State Relations at Baylor University. He lives in Waco, Texas.

• Part 1 Part I: The Economic Threat to Christian MoralityChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 The Less Divided Economic Mind of American ChristianityChapter 4 The Austrian Foundations of Economic ConservatismChapter 5 Hayek's Moral System and the Threat to Christian TraditionChapter 6 A Question of Moral SustainabilityPart 7 Part II: Envisioning a Morally Redemptive EconomyChapter 8 Reinhold Niebuhr's Economic RealismChapter 9 G.K. Chesterton's DistributismChapter 10 John Paul II's Economic PersonalismChapter 11 ConclusionChapter 12 BibliographyChapter 13 Index

God & Money is a strikingly original, subtly nuanced and learned book. It insists that, while there is no 'Christian' economics as such, it is both possible and necessary to bring virtue, morality and compassion to economic life. In the tradition of Max Weber and Daniel Bell, McDaniel suggests that capitalism—unless social compensations are in place—can tend to erode the moral bases which elevate the status of human persons, so they do not become commodities. This important book will be an indispensable study for social ethicists, students of neo-conservatism and those who are concerned about the moral bases of economic life.