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