Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Part I Introduction
1 Introduction: Well Water Deep Down 3
2 How a Living Tradition Means 19
Part II From the Bible to the Reformation
3 The Hebrew Scriptures 33
4 The New Testament 51
5 The Early Church Christian Faith and Concern for the Poor 71
6 The Early Church Patristic Teaching on Ownership and Wealth 87
7 The Beginnings of Monastic Life 107
8 The Medieval Period Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law Ethics 123
9 The Medieval Period Thomas Aquinas on Four Economic Issues 139
10 The Protestant Reformation 159
Part III Resources for Interpretation
11 The Development of Moral Teaching 181
12 Engaging Controversies Today 199
13 What We Should and Should Not Learn from Economics 217
Part IV Modern Church Teaching on Economic Life
14 Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI 237
15 Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI 257
16 Contemporary Protestant Thought on Economic Life 275
17 Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI 301
Part V Coming to Conclusions
18 Principles for an Economic Ethic Today 329
19 Implications for an Economic Ethic Today 349
20 Society, Government, and Market: Getting the Relationships Right 369
21 Conclusion 383
Bibliography 391
Index 405
Additional Praise for Christian Economic Ethics 411
