Combines an immediate enjoyment of sports with an awareness of the influence of athletic heroes on our society's spiritual life, and relates each popular sport to the particular virtue and grace it ritualizes.

This book examines capitalism and socialism and how religion and theology are incorporated into their definitions.

Reviewing the long history of the corporation in the West and in the United States, this work looks at the central role of business and economic growth in the strengthening of civil society and democracy.

This work looks at the theological and philosophical arguments behind the law of patents and copyrights. New problems, such as patents for body parts in biogenetics are also discussed.

As nations undergo radical transformation in every quarter of the world, we have a greater need than ever before to re-examine the sources of strength and weakness in our political, social and economic institutions. This book explores fundamental questions of wealth and poverty, of freedom and responsibility, and traces our ideas about them to their sources in Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. Novak shows how an understanding of these sources can liberate human potential for creativity, reinvigorate our institutions and lay the foundations for economic progress. Special...