Toward Christian Economics

Toward Christian Economics
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Its old name was "covetousness." Its new name is "greed." ...Saint Paul calls it "the root of all evil." ...Jesus spoke more times about avarice than about any other sin. Just count the number of times He talked about money— "riches," "possessions," "mammon." His attention, unlike ours, was not fixated on lust or violence but on the more socially respectable (and therefore more hidden and dangerous) sins.... James discovered the root of war in avarice when he wrote: "What causes wars and what causes fighting among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members? You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war."
...[F]allen man worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator. "In this sense," says St. Thomas [Aquinas], "covetousness is the root of all sin... as every sin grows out of the love of temporal things... [and] every sin includes an inordinate turning to a mutable good."
...[O]ur whole capitalist economic system is based on the idea, taught by Adam Smith and John Locke, that a private evil can create a public good; that avarice (the profit motive) creates wealth and thereby happiness. From this point of view, our society's supposed opposite and great enemy, communism, is only a different means to the same end. —Peter Kreeft, Back to Virtue

Exploring Distributism
Neither Communist Nor Capitalist, Both Traditional & Progressive

What Is Distributism? Essays by Thomas Storck and Others

G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics:Neither Socialism nor Capitalism by Mark & Louise Zwick

Distributism: Ownership of the Means of Production and Alternative to the Brutal Global Market by Mark and Louise Zwick

Distributism vs. Socialism: Economics As If People Mattered by Roy F. Moore

Towards a Sane Economy affiliated to the GK Chesterton Institute & closely associated with Second Spring, an international journal of Faith and Culture

Distributist Works of G.K. Chesterton

Distributist Essays of G.K. Chesterton

Outline of Sanity book

What's Wrong With the World book

Utopia of Userers & Other Essays book

Other Online Chesterton Writings

American Chesterton Society

G.K. Chesterton Megalinks

Economics in Catholic Social Teaching

On the Condition of Workers, On Capital & Labor (Rerum Novarum) by Pope Leo XIII (1891)

On Reconstruction of the Social Order (Quadragesimo Anno) by Pope Pius XI (1931)

Christianity and Social Progress (Mater et Magistra) by Pope John XXIII (1961)