The Denigration of Capitalism (Studies in Philosophy, Religion, and Public Policy) - Softcover

Novak, Michael; Burrell, David B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0844733644 ISBN 13: 9780844733647

Publisher: American Enterprise Institute, 1979

Synopsis

Dr. Edward R. Norman, a British historian and an ordained priest of the Church of England, caused a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic with his Reith Lectures, Christianity and the World Order (Oxford University Press, 1979). In an earlier lecture, "Denigration of Capitalism," reprinted here for the first time in the United States, Dr. Norman assesses the anti-capitalist bias in British intellectual history. Four American theologians representing various points of view - a church historian, Martin E. Marty, of the University of Chicago; a political philosopher. James V. Schall, S.J., of Georgetown University; a theologian. Bernard Cooke, of Calgary College, in Calgary Canada; and a systematic Theologian, David B. Burrell, C.S.C., of the University of Notre Dame - respond in criticism, qualification, and further challenge. The editor of this exchange, Michael Novak, provides an introduction and (Filling in for Dr. Norman) a final comment. This discussion should prove especially useful to theologians and church leaders, who are becoming more and more involved in commentary upon economic matters and to humanists in the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and the social sciences, who have also experienced for several generations "the denigration of capitalism."

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About the Author

Michael Novak is George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has twice been the US ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission and is a member of the National Endowment for Democracy board. He is the author of over two dozen books and numerous scholarly articles which have appeared in First Things, The Weekly Standard, and National Review Online. He is the winner of the 1994 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

David Burrell is Professor of Ethics and Development at Uganda Martyrs University. His previous publications include Faith and Freedom (2005), Friendship and Ways to Truth (2000) and Deconstructing Theodicy (2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0844733644
• ISBN 13: 9780844733647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1