On moral business : classical and contemporary resources for ethics in economic life

EXODUS AND COVENANT: Exodus 6:2-10; 15:19-21 ; The birth of the covenant / Paul D. Hanson ; The Ten Commandments: Economic implications / Max L. Stackhouse

PROPHECY AND WISDOM: Deuteronomy 15:1-23 ; Sirach 26:29-27:4; 29:8-17; 31:1-11; 38:24-34 ; Property and riches in the Old Testament and Judaism / Martin Hengel

2. THE NEW TESTAMENT : The use of the New Testament in social ethics / Stephen Charles Mott

MATTHEW'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT: Matthew 5-7 ; Ethical implications of the Sermon on the Mount / Lisa Sowle Cahill

MATTHEW'S PARABLES: Matthew 25:1-46 ; Work as stewardship / Leland Ryken

LUKE'S POOR: Wealth and poverty in the New Testament world / Bruce J. Malina

PAUL AND THE LETTERS: From the Jesus Movement to the urban Christians / Justo Gonzalez

THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT HOUSEHOLD: Christian mission, patriarchal order and the household / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

TOWARD A SUMMARY OF IMPLICATIONS: What then shall we do? On using Scripture in economic ethics / Max L. Stackhouse

3. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS : PLATO: On the myth of the ring and the economics of the city ; ARISTOTLE: On the management of the household and the perils of trade ; CICERO: On justice, law, and nature ; PLOTINUS: On true happiness

4. THE CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL TRADITIONS : CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Who is the rich man that shall be saved?

CYPRIAN: On works and alms

AUGUSTINE: On good and evil

BENEDICT: The rule of Saint Benedict

THOMAS AQUINAS: Of justice, and of cheating

5. THE REFORMATION TRADITIONS : Martin Luther: Trade and Usury

John Calvin: The moral law and the Christian life

RADICAL REFORMERS: STADLER AND WINSTANLEY: The true community of the saints / Ulrich Stadler

The true leveller's standard advanced / Gerrard Winstanley and others

John Wesley: The use of money. PART B: MODERN DEBATES

6. ENLIGHTENMENT THEORIES : John Locke: Of property

Adam Smith: Of the causes of improvement

John Stuart Mill: Private property and its critics

IMMANUEL KANT: The principles of the external mine and thine / Immanuel Kant ; Two principles of justice / John Rawls

G.W.F. Hegel: Introduction to the philosophy of history

Karl Marx: The manifesto of the Communist Party (with Friedrich Engels)

7. RELIGION AND MODERNIZATION : ON THE PROTESTANT ETHIC: Asceticism and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber

ON TIME: Of time: Work, prayer, and monks / David Landes

ON LAW: Theological sources of the Western legal tradition / Harold J. Berman

ON USURY: On the taking of interest / Benjamin N. Nelson

ON TECHNOLOGY: Puritanism, pietism, and science / Robert Merton

ON DIFFERENTIATION: Christianity and society / Talcott Parsons

8. SOCIALISM, CAPITALISM, AND CHRISTIANITY : Charles C. West: Marxism and Christianity

Andrew Carnegie: The administration of wealth

John A. Ryan: The church and the workingman

Reinhold Niebuhr: Marx, Barth, and Israel's prophets

James W. Skillen: Human freedom, social justice, and Marxism: A Biblical response

Peter J. Parish: Slavery, capitalism, and religion

Janet Thomas: Women and capitalism: Oppression or Emancipation?

Gustavo Gutierrez: Liberation and development

David Martin: Religion and economic culture

Peter L. Berger: Social ethics in a post-socialist world

9. ECONOMICS AROUND THE WORLD : ISLAM: Surahs from the Qur'an ; Dealings / Mahmud Shaltaut ; Islam and the spirit of capitalism / Robert Hefner ; Islamic banking: Faith and creativity / Ken Brown

HINDUISM: Artha Shastra / Kautiliya ; Tirukkural / Tiruvalluvar ; Indian socialism / Jawaharlal Nehru ; The Hindu ethic and development: Western views / Max L. Stackhouse

BUDDHISM, ASCETICISM, AND WEALTH: Teachings from the Suttas ; Buddhist attitudes toward poverty and wealth / Phra Rajavaramuni ; Zen and the economic animal / Yamamoto Shichihei ; Buddhist economics / E.F. Schumacher

THE CHINESE PHILOSOPHY: Sayings of Confucius ; Neo-Confucian teachings of Ch'eng Hao ; The dialectical outlook / Mao Tse-Tung ; Is Confucianism part of the capitalist ethic? / Wei-ming Tu

AFRICAN TRADITIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS: Wisdom from African traditions ; On the division between rich and poor / Julius K. Nyerere ; A surprising silent majority in South Africa / Bill Keller

10. RECENT CHURCH DOCUMENTS : LUTHERAN STATEMENT: Economic justice: Stewardship of creation in human community / The Lutheran Church in America

THE U.S. BISHOPS' PASTORAL LETTER: Economic justice for all: Catholic social teaching and the U.S. economy / National Conference of Catholic Bishops

A MAINLINE PROTESTANT POSITION: Christian faith and economic life / United Church of Christ

CONSERVATIVE AND EVANGELICAL STATEMENTS: The Villars statement on relief and development ; The Oxford declaration on Christian faith and economics

A PAPAL ENCYCLICAL: Centesimus annus / John Paul II. PART C: CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS : 11. THE CHANGING CORPORATION: (1) Moral significance and corporate organization: Spirituality and the corporation / Max L. Stackhouse

Management as a social practice: Rethinking business ethics after MacIntyre / Dennis P. McCann and M.L. Brownsberger

The potential for building covenants in business corporations / Stewart W. Herman

Three images of corporate leadership and their implications for social justice / Donald W. Shriver, Jr

(2) Structuring organizations for accountability: Ethics and management in the corporate arena / Michael R. Rion

Creating ethical corporate structures / Patrick E. Murphy

Corporate accountability: The board of directors / Harold M. Williams

(3) Democratizing the corporation: Is Mondragon the way? / John C. Cort

Evangelical Christians and economic democracy / Shirley J. Roels

Theory fastball / Max De Pree

Corporate democracy and the legacy of the South African divestment movement / Robert Kinloch Massie

12. ETHICS IN SPECIALIZATIONS OF BUSINESS : (1) MARKETING: Business ethics: On getting to the heart of the matter / Paul F. Camenisch

Challenging a commodity culture / John Kavanaugh

Capitalism and commutative justice / Jon P. Gunnemann

Ethics, price fixing, and the management of price strategy / William J. Kehoe

(2) FINANCE: Have ethics disappeared from Wall Street? / Robert S. Bachelder

The church and Wall Street / Dennis P. McCann

Theology and money / Paul Hessert

(3) ACCOUNTING: Accounting and accountability: Double entry, double nature, double identity / I.C. Stewart

Accounting and sentiment / Philip M. Piaker

Meeting the financial reporting needs of the future: A public commitment from the public accounting profession / Board of directors of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

(4) HUMAN RESOURCES: Shaping our economic future: Dignity in the work place / Elmer W. Johnson

Learning to manage a multicultural workforce / Lennie Copeland

Occupational stress is a moral issue: Lessons in front of a VDT / Barbara Hilkert Andolsen

13. MORAL BUSINESS LEADERSHIP: ORIGINS AND OUTCOMES : (1) Personal Moral Vision and the Calling to Business: Christian faith and business: A story / M.L. Brownsberger

The Christian vocation of a business leader / Joseph P. Sullivan

Women in the workplace / Penelope Washbourn

The Protestant work ethic: Attitude and application give it meaning / Fred Catherwood

Affections and business / John C. Haughey, S.J

(2) When Personal Calling Meets Corporate Culture: The virtues of the business leader / William F. May

Minerva's owl: Building a corporate value system / William L. Weiss

How religious commitments shape corporate decisions / J. Irwin Miller

Values don't work in business / Dennis Bakke

(3) Putting Faith to the Test: Christian ethics and the business ethos / Larry L. McSwain

When a boss asks for something unethical / Richard Chewning

Does big business have a big heart? / Claudia McDonnell

The path to social responsibility / Joseph Nolan and David Nolan. 14. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY : (1) Challenges in Emerging Global Markets: The gross national product and the gods: The idea of economic culture / Peter L. Berger

The Asian systems / George Lodge

Korean economy: A model case of a miraculous growth? / Sang-Goog Cho

Guiding Principles / Arun Katiyar and Shefali Rekhi

The new Poland: Major problems for ethical business / Leo V. Ryan

Reconstituting civic societies: An Afro-American view / Preston N. Williams

(2) Multinational Corporations: Toward a theology of the corporation / Michael Novak

Developmental responsibility / Lee A. Tavis

Global ethics: Wrestling with the corporate conscience / Gene R. Laczniak and Jacob Naor

(3) Third World Development: The people of God and the development of peoples / Cardinal Maurice Roy

A Biblical perspective on stewardship / Ronald J. Sider

The political task of the Christian church / Cornel West

The churches and Third World poverty / Mark R. Amstuts

(4) The Economy and the Global Environment: Two economies / Wendell Berry

Unoriginal sin: The Judeo-Christian roots of ecotheology / Robert H. Nelson

Ecological integrity and Christian political responsibility / James A. Nash

How green is our Gospel? / Andrew Steer

15. THE ONGOING DISCUSSION : (1) Challenges for the Church Community: The righteous and the powerful: Differing paths to social goals / S. Prakash Sethi

The ethical premise for social activism / J. Philip Wogaman

The blue-collar worker and the church / Steve Boint

The new agenda of the black church: Economic development for black America / Lloyd Gite

Connecting ministry with the corporate world / David A. Krueger

(2) Challenges for the Business Community: The moral muteness of managers / Frederick B. Bird and James A. Waters

Ethics and accountability: The rising power of stakeholder capitalism / J. Richard Finlay

The lay task of co-creation / Michael Novak

Business goals and processes / Shirley J. Roels

(3) The Call for New Christian Paradigms: The great refusal and my discontent / Robert Benne

Christians and economic development / Amy L. Sherman

The four problems of economic life / Daniel Rush Finn

Ethics, economics, and free trade / John B. Cobb, Jr

Liberating thoughts about the ethics of exchange and trade / Robin Klay

A postcommunist manifesto: Public theology after the collapse of socialism / Max L. Stackhouse and Dennis P. McCann

EPILOGUE : Where do we go from here? Some thoughts on geoeconomics / Dennis P. McCann

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