This Black-American Protestant pastor make some good points about ethical economics I think. I don't agree with every single thing he said but most of it I do.
The Church and the Moral Mandate of Economics (Christopher Brooks - Acton Institute)
Published on Apr 18, 2017
This lecture will discuss the unique role the church plays in a market-based economic system, and will examine the moral imperatives given in scripture and Christian social thought that are foundational to building an economy that allows flourishing and ensures justice for all. Pastor Brooks explains the vital relationship between economics and moral philosophy for a free and virtuous society.
Chris Brooks is the senior pastor of Evangel Ministries, a thriving 1600-member church in the heart of Detroit. He also serves as campus dean of Moody Theological Seminary in Plymouth, Mich. A popular Detroit radio host since 2005, he is author of Kingdom Dreaming (2009) and Urban Apologetics (2014). He graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in finance, completed his M.A. in Christian apologetics at Biola University, and graduated from the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics.
These other 3 are all Catholics with the priest and one of the men proponents of free market capitalism. The other man--originally from England (as you might tell by his accent)--is a proponent of distributism the Catholic model of economics. Where capitalism places the individual as the focus in economics, and socialism the state, distributism seeks to place
the family as the focus of economics.
A Gentleman’s Debate: Distributism vs. Free-Markets (Joseph Pearce & Jay Richards - Acton Institute)
Published on Mar 16, 2016
Rev. Robert A. Sirico is the president and co-founder of the Acton Institute and the pastor at Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, both in Grand Rapids, MI. A regular writer and commentator on religious, political, economic, and social issues, Rev. Sirico’s contributions have been carried by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Washington Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, and the BBC, among others. In his popular book, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, Rev. Sirico shows how a free economy is not only the best way to meet society’s material needs but also the surest protection of human dignity against government encroachment.
Jay Richards is Assistant Research Professor School of Business and Economics at The Catholic University of America, a Senior Fellow Discovery Institute, and Executive Editor of The Stream.
Joseph Pearce is writer in residence at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee, and Director of the college’s Center for Faith and Culture
This event took place on February 18, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I looked up the Acton Institute and that priest. The priest has an interesting story. His brother was one of the leading faces (actors) on the Sorpranos. That priest also came out as gay in the 1970s, got into left-wing liberal things, then converted to a more conservative outlook and apparently joined the priesthood.
All 3 on that stage view corporate globalism and super-states as a great threat to the freedom of man. Basic Catholic doctrine promotes
property rights, as ownership in the perspective of Catholicism enables
freedom. Therefore, the question is always: "How can ownership, greater degrees of owning property among the masses, be enabled and encouraged in systems of economics?"
That does not mean you want the state to own everything, but nor does it mean you want increasing amounts of wealth concentrated into fewer and fewer private hands. Say, like the Saudi royal family supposedly having a net worth of $1.4
trillion. Or banks or corporations hogging most the wealth.
One aspect of distributism that differentiates it from socialism is that charity is supposed to move from small circles outward rather than from big circles inward. So, in the former charity and economies move from say... the neighborhood outward to city, state, etc. In socialism it would move from say... the Federal Government to the state to the city then down to the neighborhood.
I bring this up, because my next post with videos will be one the NWO (New World Order) globalist which seek war upon Russia and Putin. And Russian traditional spirituality which sees Russians as something of Jewish Israelites who may not be a nation endowed with Hollywood, glitz, glamor and ipads, but onto themselves accept suffering as an obligation to protect the Word of God. Or Orthodoxy.
