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Book Synopsis Franciscan Wealth by : Giacomo Todeschini
Download or read book Franciscan Wealth written by Giacomo Todeschini and published by Franciscan Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Franciscan Wealth, Giacomo Todeschini provides a critical and objective study of Franciscan economic theory. As promoters of a rigorous and evangelical poverty, the Franciscans were paradoxically led to investigate all forms of the economic life between that of extreme poverty and that of excessive wealth, distinguishing carefully between property and temporary possession the use of economic goods.
Book Synopsis Franciscans and Their Finances by : David B. Couturier
Download or read book Franciscans and Their Finances written by David B. Couturier and published by . This book was released on 2015-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Money and Thoughtlessness by : Justin Pack
Download or read book Money and Thoughtlessness written by Justin Pack and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Justin Pack proposes a genealogy of the traditional suspicion of money and merchants. This genealogy is framed both by how money itself has changed and how different traditions responded to money. Money and merchants became heavily debated concerns in the Axial Age, which coincided with the spread of coinage. A deep suspicion of money and merchants was particularly notable in the Greek, Confucian and Christian traditions, and continued into the Middle Ages. These traditions wrestled with a new dialectic of purity that also appears with the widespread use of money. How were these concerns dealt with politically, socially and philosophically? How did they change over time? How did medieval Europe deal with money and how did this inform modern governmentality? To answer these questions, Pack turns to Hanna Arendt’s work. Arendt argues that one of the outstanding characteristics of our time is thoughtlessness. This thoughtlessness is related to how modern life, especially under neoliberalism, is increasingly structured by abstract systems, abstract calculative rationality, abstract relations, and the profit motive. Money both drives and embodies this machinery. The hyper-complex abstract systems of modernity discourage, to use Arendtian terms, “thinking” (wonder, questioning everything) in favor of “cognition” (problem solving). Too often the result is thoughtless cognition—the ability to make things more productive and efficient paired with the incapacity to question and challenge the implications and morality of these systems.
Book Synopsis Franciscan Virtue by : Krijn Pansters
Download or read book Franciscan Virtue written by Krijn Pansters and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the virtues of evangelical life according to three major Franciscan authors: Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, and David of Augsburg. It is the first to offer a historical and source-based treatment of early Franciscan virtue discourse, by answering the following questions: How do the authors describe and prescribe the essential virtues for the life in the footsteps of Jesus Christ? How are the spiritual virtues acquired or lost? How do the development and application of these virtues shape “perfect” individuals as well as the “good” of the community? This work is a valuable contribution to our understanding of how the virtues functioned as central, organizing elements in early Franciscan literature and instruction.
Book Synopsis Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth in Humanistic Thought by : Hans Baron
Download or read book Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth in Humanistic Thought written by Hans Baron and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tailored Wealth Management by : Niall J. Gannon
Download or read book Tailored Wealth Management written by Niall J. Gannon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of wealth has become one of the least understood concepts of our time. Whether you desire wealth, have wealth, or wish to redistribute wealth, the roadmaps to success have been painted over by outdated financial models, politically charged rhetoric, and the mistaken belief that at its core wealth is simply a number. Tailored Wealth Management meets you where you are: a new college graduate, a retiring CEO, a journeyman carpenter, or a compassionate philanthropist. The book educates readers with a deeper understanding of their place on the national and global scales of wealth. It proves that the term “wealthy” can apply as fittingly to a gas station attendant as it does to a gas company president. It empowers the reader with the causes and effects that allow wealth to accumulate, to produce income, and to re-shape society through responsible gifting and philanthropy. As American household wealth has recently crossed through $100 trillion, investors have become polarized between ineffective complexity versus blind “hope” simplicity. The under-funded pensions, retirement accounts, and social safety nets are a result of a failure of the status quo. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are not only inalienable rights but achievable goals open to the masses rather than the few. Tailored Wealth Management topples the walls that have quarantined families and individuals from becoming wealthy, staying wealthy, or passing the same on to the next generation and our communities. This book provides solutions for the active, passive, small, and large investor arming the reader with the causes that lead to the effect of success.
Book Synopsis Franciscan - an American Dinnerware Tradition by : Bob Page
Download or read book Franciscan - an American Dinnerware Tradition written by Bob Page and published by Page/Frederiksen Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Business Francis Means by : Martin Schlag
Download or read book The Business Francis Means written by Martin Schlag and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pope Francis, generally speaking, has thus far chosen to concentrate his papacy on social justice issues, as opposed to doctrinal or liturgical issues. This has led to Francis being hailed as a hero to many on the left, while it has made some conservative supporters of St. John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI disappointed and uncomfortable, even as they love and appreciate his person and gestures of mercy and compassion. Some find his teachings difficult to embrace, especially those concerning business and the economy. Pope Francis has spoken of building bridges as part of what it is to be Christian, but aspects of his message seem to be just constructing walls between the Holy Father and groups of the faithful. The Business Francis Means aims to break through these walls, showing that Pope Francis has something to say to all Christians. His message, taken as a whole, keeps us from dividing the “seamless garment” of Christ: he reminds the conservatives of the problems of inequality and poverty, and the liberals that social justice is not enough – the Church is the bride of Christ, not a social institution or an NGO. Monsignor Martin Schlag summarizes and explains the message of Pope Francis on business and the economy in this compact volume. The Business Francis Means will be of great interest to the Catholic layperson, especially one involved in political or economic life.
Download or read book Franciscan Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth as Factors in the Rise of Humanistic Thought by : Hans Baron
Download or read book Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth as Factors in the Rise of Humanistic Thought written by Hans Baron and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seeing Differently by : Samuel Double
Download or read book Seeing Differently written by Samuel Double and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book brings together the stories of St Francis – his preaching to birds, rejection of wealth, caring for lepers, befriending animals and living simply, his poetry and hymnody in praise of creation that is still sung today – and the influential writings and examples of inspiring Franciscans who have followed him such as Clare, Bonaventure, Duns Scotus and Angela of Foligno, and draws them into conversation with contemporary concerns for our planet. It gathers 800 years of accumulated wisdom and practical examples of how Franciscans have found ways to live at home and at peace with creation. It explores that long tradition and experience to ask what lessons can be drawn for today to challenge and enable readers to re-visit their own relationship with creation.
Download or read book Render Unto Rome written by Jason Berry and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INVESTIGATION OF EPIC FINANCIAL INTRIGUE, RENDER UNTO ROME EXPOSES THE SECRECY AND DECEIT THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE VALUES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is no doubt that historically the Catholic Church has been one of the great engines of charity in history. But once a dollar is dropped in that basket, where does it go? How are weekly cash contributions that can amount to tens of thousands of dollars accounted for? Where does the money go when a diocese sells a church property for tens of millions of dollars? And what happens when hundreds of millions of dollars are turned over to officials at the highest ranks, no questions asked, for their discretionary use? The Roman Catholic Church is the largest organization in the world. The Vatican has never revealed its net worth, but the value of its works of art, great churches, property in Rome, and stocks held through its bank easily run into the tens of billions. Yet the Holy See as a sovereign state covers a mere 108 acres and has a small annual budget of about $280 million. No major book has examined the church’s financial underpinnings and practices with such journalistic force. Today the church bears scrutiny by virtue of the vast amounts of money (nearly $2 billion in the United States alone) paid out to victims of clergy abuse. Amid mounting diocesan bankruptcies, bishops have been selling off whole pieces of the infrastructure—churches, schools, commercial properties—while the nephew of one of the Vatican’s most powerful cardinals engaged in a lucrative scheme to profiteer off the enormous downsizing of American church wealth.
Book Synopsis This Thing Called Theory by : Teresa Stoppani
Download or read book This Thing Called Theory written by Teresa Stoppani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines, thus opening up architecture itself and showing how architecture is inextricably connected to other social and theoretical practices. The sections move gradually from the specifics of architectural thought – its history, theory, and criticism – and their ongoing relation with philosophy, to the critical positions formulated through architecture’s specific forms of expression, and onto more recent forms of architecture’s engagement and self-definition. The book’s thematic sessions are concluded by and interspersed with a series of shorter critical position texts, which, together, propose a new vision of the contemporary role of theory in architecture. What emerges, overall, is a critical and productive role for theory in architecture today: theory as a proposition, theory as task and as a ‘risk’ of architecture.
Book Synopsis Godliness and Greed by : Skip Worden
Download or read book Godliness and Greed written by Skip Worden and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional scholarship often points to the Calvinists and Max Weber's writing on the Protestant ethic as the catalysts to changing Christian attitudes concerning profit-seeking and wealth. Author Skip Worden argues that the seeds of this change occurred centuries earlier. From the beginning of the Commercial Revolution to the fifteenth-century Renaissance, he shows that the predominant Christian thought on economics went through a fundamental shift, becoming favorable toward profit-seeking and wealth-holding. Worden discusses this dramatic change and explains how the general antagonism toward the pursuit of wealth before the Commercial Revolution transformed into Protestant theologians' fighting against the prevailing view of a pro-wealth paradigm during the fifteenth century. Worden contends that the shift away from the Patristic view of wealth occurred well before the addition of the Calvinist spirit of capitalism and the Puritan work ethic into Christian economic vernacular. Drawing on Plato, Cicero, and Augustine, early Protestant theologians unsuccessfully sought to check the rising dominance of the pro-wealth Christian paradigm, which they believed had been pushed too far. These theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth century felt it was too close to advocating love of gain itself, something too close to the sin of greed. How well the Reformation succeeded can be assessed by Worden's insightful concluding study of John D. Rockefeller, the ascetic steward of God's Gold in the form of monopoly.
Book Synopsis The Franciscan Invention of the New World by : Julia McClure
Download or read book The Franciscan Invention of the New World written by Julia McClure and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the story of the ‘discovery of America’ through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often paradoxical relationships with poverty and power offer an alternate account of global history. Through this lens, Julia McClure offers a deeper history of colonialism, not only by extending its chronology, but also by exploring the powerful role of ambivalence in the emergence of colonial regimes. Other topics discussed include the legal history of property, the complexity and politics of global knowledge networks, the early (and neglected) history of the Near Atlantic, and the transatlantic inquisition, mysticism, apocalypticism, and religious imaginations of place.
Book Synopsis Franciscan Management of Finances by : Ordo Fratrum Minorum - Roma
Download or read book Franciscan Management of Finances written by Ordo Fratrum Minorum - Roma and published by OFM Communications Office. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final document of the General Chapter of 2009, Bearers of the Gift of the Gospel, the chapter delegates stated clearly their intention that any document issuing from the Chapter should be a message that “inspires and animates the daily life of the brothers rather than a doctrinal document” (BGG, 2). They further declared that they wanted to place themselves and all of the friars “in the context of the life, needs, questions and challenges of our people” (BGG, 4). They reinforced this concern later in the document, when they stated: “The spirituality that nourishes our life and evangelizing mission is never foreign to the life of our peoples and what concerns them” (BGG, 30). One of the more serious concerns among the members of the Chapter relates to the “ethical use of financial resources in solidarity,” a theme that has come to the fore following the collapse of the global economic architecture beginning in 2008, and its lingering negative consequences in all regions of the world. Concerns regarding the ethical use of financial resources are found in Mandates 43, 54 and 55 of Bearers of the Gift of the Gospel. They reflect a much broader concern regarding economic activity and the role of ethics in promoting the common good, as has been repeatedly expressed by the Church in her Social Teaching. These same concerns were examined by the Union of Superiors General in 2002, in the document entitled Economy and Mission in the Consecrated Life Today. In 2011 the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, in its reflection on the world economy, Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority, states that “The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence. What is more, the crisis engages private actors and competent public authorities on the national, regional and international level in serious reflection on both causes and solutions of a political, economic and technical nature.” And more recently, Pope Francis, in his Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii gaudium (November 2013), states clearly that ethics and economy can no longer be divorced but must be united in their promotion of the common good (cf. num. 52-60, 203-207, et passim). The present document addresses all of these concerns, but it is a specific response to Mandate 54 of the General Chapter, which calls for “a program for Initial and Ongoing Formation that will educate the Entities of the Order on the theme of finances, paying particular attention to transparency, solidarity and ethics” (BGG, Mandate 54). The General Administration offers this document as a source of reflection and also as a challenge to all friars, to be used for both Ongoing and Initial Formation throughout the Order. My special thanks go to the Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation and to the General Treasurer for their essential contribution in its elaboration, along with the many friars and members of the General Definitorium who offered helpful suggestions and comments. We pray that this reflection will help us to live more faithfully our Franciscan commitment to the Gospel through an ethical use of resources in favor of the poor.
