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Capitalism and progress : a diagnosis of Western society /Biblical And Theological Classics Library by Bob Goudzwaard ; translated and edited by Josina Van Nuis Zylstra

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publication details: Toronto, Canada : Wedge Pub. Foundation ; Grand Rapids,Mich. : Eerdmans, c1979Description: xxvii, 270 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0802818099
Uniform titles:
  • Kapitalisme en vooruitgang. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 330.122 G688C
LOC classification:
  • HB501 .G62713
Contents:
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
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR) 330.122 G688C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available 055172
Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR) 330.122 G688C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available 055169

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

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