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Goudzwaard, B

Capitalism and progress : a diagnosis of Western society /Biblical And Theological Classics Library by Bob Goudzwaard ; translated and edited by Josina Van Nuis Zylstra - Toronto, Canada : Grand Rapids,Mich. : Wedge Pub. Foundation ; Eerdmans, c1979 - xxvii, 270 p. ; 21 cm

Translation of Kapitalisme en vooruitgang (2d. rev. ed., 1978)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and indexes

The social order as an expression of culture -- The barrier of church and heaven -- The barrier of fate and providence -- Evaluative intermezzo -- The barrier of the lost paradise -- The industrial revolution and its consequences -- The socialist countermovement -- The unfolding of faith in progress after 1850 -- Changes within capitalism since 1850 -- Progress, political parties, and the labor movement -- The vulnerability of progress : introduction -- The vulnerability of the environment -- The vulnerability of the system -- The vulnerability of western man -- The dialectic of progress -- A miscellany of responses -- No easy way out -- Paradise lost revisited -- Fate and providence revisited -- Intermezzo : possibilities and limits of disclosure -- Church and heaven revisited -- Epilogue

ISBN: 0802818099 (Eerdmans: pbk.) :

LCCN: 79020818

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Capitalism
Progress
Civilization, Western

LC Class. No.: HB501 / .G62713

Dewey Class. No.: 330.122 G688C