Title: | HE BECAME POOR: The Poverty of Christ and Aquinas's Economic Teachings |
BookID: | 10714 |
Authors: |
Christopher A. Franks |
ISBN-10(13): | ************* |
Publication date: | 2009 |
Number of pages: | 208 |
Language: | English |
Price: | 645,00 R |
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Drawing deeply on the views of Thomas Aquinas, He Became Poor challenges the modern economic tendency toward the "proprietary self" and calls for a renewed appreciation of the virtues of trusting receptivity and humble awareness of our membership in a larger benevolent order. Christopher Franks reveals how the summons to become poor bestows a new intelligibility on formerly obscure economic teachings. In the course of his discussion Franks juxtaposes Aquinas with Aristotle, John Locke, and Alasdair MacIntyre. This book makes a provocative case for taking Aquinas's thoughts on economics more seriously and illustrates how the very market conditions of the modern world cloud any attempt to fully understand Aquinas. Franks offers a convincing argument that questioning market-formed assumptions can actually help us recover the evangelical character of Aquinas's ethics. |
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