Capitalism Converts Christianity - Fitzgerald, Gray
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This book offers a theological challenge to the dominant assumptions of most Christians and churches in the twenty-first century, which simply accept the American cultural values about money. The author offers stories and mini-biographies of churches and members throughout history who have approached spending, money, and capitalism with a countercultural set of norms. In other words, the wedding of capitalism and Christianity has not always been so, and the current transformation of Christianity by capitalism must not be so now or ever! A great tool for small group study or personal use. The…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book offers a theological challenge to the dominant assumptions of most Christians and churches in the twenty-first century, which simply accept the American cultural values about money. The author offers stories and mini-biographies of churches and members throughout history who have approached spending, money, and capitalism with a countercultural set of norms. In other words, the wedding of capitalism and Christianity has not always been so, and the current transformation of Christianity by capitalism must not be so now or ever! A great tool for small group study or personal use. The author is an effective preacher in the genre of Brueggemann and others who express concern about wealth's corruption on those who would be disciples of Christ.
Autorenporträt
Gray Fitzgerald has been active in lay ministry and social services for much of his life. He volunteered in Ecuador with the Peace Corps, was a lay leader in an Atlanta inner-city church, served with a nonviolent ecumenical group in wartime Nicaragua, headed up volunteer construction for an Atlanta inner-city housing program, visited inmates throughout the Georgia prison system, counseled individual and families coping with mental illness, and pastored two small United Church of Christ congregations in New Hampshire. In retirement, he continued to live in NH and was active in the UCC's peace and justice activities. In recent years, he has focused on writing a book concerned with his belief that rather than the church converting our society to the values of our faith regarding money, property, and wealth, the culture has instead converted the church to the values of the culture in those areas.