Wealth and the Will of God

by Schervish, Paul G.; Whitaker, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780253354075
• ISBN10: 0253354072
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Wealth and the Will of Godlooks at some of the spiritual resources of the Christian tradition that can aid serious reflection on wealth and giving. Beginning with Aristotle-who is crucial for understanding later Christian thought-the book discusses Aquinas, Ignatius, Luther, Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards. Though the ideas vary greatly, the chapters are organized to facilitate comparisons among these thinkers on issues of ultimate purposes or aspirations of human life; on the penultimate purposes of love, charity, friendship, and care; on the resources available to human beings in this life; and finally on ways to connect and implement in practice our identified resources with our ultimate ends.

Author Biography

Paul G. Schervish is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College and National Research Fellow at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. He is author of The Modern Medici: Strategies of Philanthropy among the Wealthy.

Keith Whitaker is a research fellow at Boston College's Center on Wealth and Philanthropy and Managing Director, Family Dynamics, at Calibre, a division of Wachovia Wealth Management. His work has appeared in Philanthropy Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.