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Suggested reading for religious leaders on theology and economics  

 

Compiled by Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty

Books that are accessible for church study groups

Justice Not Greed,” edited by Pam Brubaker and Rogate Mshana. World Council of Churches, Geneva.

Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Economic-Ecological Vocation” by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda. Fortress Press, Minneapolis.

To Do Justice: A Guide for Progressive Christians” edited by Rebecca Todd Peters and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville.

Globalization and Theology” by Joerg Rieger. Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tenn.

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets” by Michael Sandel. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York.

Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered” by E.F. Schumacher (with a foreword by Bill McKibben) Harper Perennial, New York.

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger” by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Bloomsbury Press, New York.

Resources available on the World Council of Churches website – oikoumene.org

“São Paulo Statement: International Financial Transformation for the Economy of Life” (2012) by World Council of Churches (WCC), World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), Council for World Mission (CWM), and Lutheran World Federation (LWF) www.bit.ly/wccsaopaulo

“Economy of Life for All Now: An Ecumenical Action Plan for a New International Financial and Economic Architecture” (2014) by WCC, WCRC, CWM, and LWF www.bit.ly/wcceconomy

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