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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- A Word to the Reader -- Introduction: Foundations and Purposes -- Part A: Classical Resources -- 1. The Hebrew Scriptures -- Biblical Principles for Economic Theory and Practice -- Creation and Fall -- Genesis 1:1-4:1 -- 4:17-26 -- Scarcity, Faith, and Wisdom -- Exodus and Covenant -- Exodus 6:2-10 -- 15:19-21 -- The Birth of the Covenant -- The Ten Commandments: Economic Implications -- Prophecy and Wisdom -- Deuteronomy 15:1-23 -- Sirach 26:29-27:4 -- 29:8-17 -- 31:1-11 -- 38:24-34 -- Property and Riches in the Old Testament and Judaism -- 2. The New Testament -- The Use of the New Testament in Social Ethics -- Matthew's Sermon on the Mount -- Matthew 5-7 -- Ethical Implications of the Sermon on the Mount -- Matthew's Parables -- Matthew 25:1-46 -- Work as Stewardship -- Luke's Poor -- Wealth and Poverty in the New Testament World -- Paul and the Letters -- From the Jesus Movement to the Urban Christians -- The Study of the New Testament Household -- Christian Mission, Patriarchal Order and the Household -- Toward a Summary of Implications -- What Then Shall We Do? On Using Scripture in Economic Ethics -- 3. Ancient Philosophers -- Plato -- On the Myth of the Ring and the Economics of the City -- Aristotle -- On the Management of the Household and the Perils of Trade -- Cicero -- On Justice, Law, and Nature -- Plotinus -- On True Happiness -- 4. The Catholic Theological Traditions -- Clement of Alexandria -- Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? -- Cyprian -- On Works and Alms -- Augustine -- On Good and Evil -- Benedict -- The Rule of Saint Benedict -- Thomas Aquinas -- Of Justice, and Of Cheating -- 5. The Reformation Traditions -- Martin Luther -- Trade and Usury -- John Calvin -- The Moral Law and the Christian Life -- Radical Reformers: Stadler and Winstanley