Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition is a theological and historical exploration of the treatment of entrepreneurship, business, and commerce in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. Moving from Scriptural exegesis to modern papal social encyclicals, Anthony G. Percy shows how Catholic teaching had developed profound insights into the ultimate meaning of entrepreneurship and commerce and invested it with theological, philosophical, and economic meaning that surpasses many conventional religious and secular interpretations. Entrepreneurship is illustrated as being as much a potential contributor to all-round integral human flourishing as it is to economic growth and development. In this sense, Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition challenges the stereotype of the Catholic Church having a negative view of economic liberty and the institutions that enhance its productivity. Instead we discover a tradition in which first millennium theologians, medieval scholastics, and modern Catholic thinkers have thought seriously and at length about the character of free enterprise and its moral and commercial significance.

Auteur
Fr. Anthony G. Percy is a diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn, Australia. He received his doctorate in sacred theology from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He is also the author of Theology of the Body Made Simple (2006). He is presently rector of the Good Shepherd Seminary in Sydney, Australia.

Contenu
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Chapter 1Introduction
Chapter 3 Chapter 2Entrepreneurial Work: Toward a Definition
Chapter 4 Chapter 3Entrepreneurial Work: Scripture and Tradition
Chapter 5 Chapter 4Private Initiative in the Social Teaching of the Church: Leo XIII-Paul VI
Chapter 6 Chapter 5Human Action, Work, and Enterprise: The Second Vatican Council
Chapter 7 Chapter 6Human Work: First Insights from John Paul II
Chapter 8 Chapter 7From Work to Entrepreneurship: The Revolution of Centesimus Annus
Chapter 9 Further Reading