Christian economic morality
The Medieval Turning Point
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4388929 |
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| Authors | Guillaume Erner (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 185 |
| Pages | 469-479 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2451.2005.564.x |
| OpenAlex | W1968180741 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
It is one of history's paradoxical commonplaces that capitalism came into being within a Christian culture that was hostile to money. Little thought has, however, been given to the reasons for that hostility, though they are not self-evident. While it is true that the Church Fathers displayed great hostility towards material things, medieval theologians had no qualms about revising the theses of the Early Church to suit the needs of the moment. We seek to explain the virulence of this early form of anti-capitalism by the connection that was made between material concerns in the broad sense - money, but also sex - and an anti-world that was supposed to be dominated by the Jews. A study of the discourse of thirteenth-century Christian theologians enables us to highlight the links between hostility towards money and hatred of outsiders, which may help to explain the continuing prevalence of this rejection within various modern forms of discourse
Aesthetics · Capitalism · Hatred · Hostility · Morality · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turning point · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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