Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition

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Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition

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Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition is a theological and historical exploration of the treatment of entrepreneurship, business, and commerce in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. Moving from Scriptural exegesis to modern papal social encyclicals, Anthony G. Percy shows how Catholic teaching had developed profound insights into the ultimate meaning of entrepreneurship and commerce and invested it with theological, philosophical, and economic meaning that surpasses many conventional religious and secular interpretations. Entrepreneurship is illustrated as being as much a potential contributor to all-round integral human flourishing as it is to economic growth and development. In this sense, Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition challenges the stereotype of the Catholic Church having a negative view of economic liberty and the institutions that enhance its productivity. Instead we discover a tradition in which first millennium theologians, medieval scholastics, and modern Catholic thinkers have thought seriously and at length about the character of free enterprise and its moral and commercial significance.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Chapter 1-Introduction
Chapter 3 Chapter 2-Entrepreneurial Work: Toward a Definition
Chapter 4 Chapter 3-Entrepreneurial Work: Scripture and Tradition
Chapter 5 Chapter 4-Private Initiative in the Social Teaching of the Church: Leo XIII-Paul VI
Chapter 6 Chapter 5-Human Action, Work, and Enterprise: The Second Vatican Council
Chapter 7 Chapter 6-Human Work: First Insights from John Paul II
Chapter 8 Chapter 7-From Work to Entrepreneurship: The Revolution of Centesimus Annus
Chapter 9 Further Reading

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Published Jul 29 2010
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9780739125144
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 232 x 155 mm
Series Studies in Ethics and Economics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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