For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles

March 16, 2015

Video & Audio: Gene Veith On The Real Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism

Max Weber’s classic study The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism made the case that the Reformation had a major impact on the rise of free market capitalism. But according to Gene Edward Veith, Weber misunderstood what it was about the Reformation that caused that impact. Continue Reading...

February 13, 2015

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the economy of love

On August 12, 1943, months after having been arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned, the Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his young fiancée Maria von Wedemeyer: When I consider the state of the world, the total obscurity enshrouding our personal destiny, and my present imprisonment, our union—if it wasn’t frivolity, which it certainly wasn’t—can only be a token of God’s grace and goodness, which summon us to believe in him. Continue Reading...

August 27, 2014

Watch ‘The Economy of Creative Service’ for Free

For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles is a 7-part series from the Acton Institute that seeks to examine the bigger picture of Christianity’s role in culture, society, and the world. Continue Reading...

August 18, 2014

Get a Free Rental of ‘For the Life of the World – The Church’

August 04, 2014

Get a Free Rental of ‘The Economy of Wisdom’

July 28, 2014

Get a Free Rental of ‘The Economy of Order’

July 23, 2014

Watch ‘The Economy of Love’ for FREE on Flannel (Today Only)

For today and today only, you can watch Episode 2 of For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles for FREE over at Flannel.org. Produced by the Acton Institute and spread across seven episodes, the series seeks to examine the bigger picture of Christianity’s role in culture, society, and the world. Continue Reading...

July 21, 2014

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