Merchant Saint: The Church, the Market, and the First Lay Canonization by Prudlo, Donald S.
Merchant Saint: The Church, the Market, and the First Lay Canonization by Prudlo, Donald S.

Merchant Saint: The Church, the Market, and the First Lay Canonization

Paul Voss and Donald Prudlo trace Western attitudes to money, merchants, and the market through 3,000 years...
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Merchant Saint: The Church, the Market, and the First Lay Canonization by Prudlo, Donald S.

Merchant Saint: The Church, the Market, and the First Lay Canonization

$501.98
Merchant Saint: The Church, the Market, and the First Lay Canonization by Prudlo, Donald S.

Merchant Saint: The Church, the Market, and the First Lay Canonization

$501.98
Author: Donald S. Prudlo
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Paul Voss and Donald Prudlo trace Western attitudes to money, merchants, and the market through 3,000 years of history. They focus their attention on one person in particular, Omobono of Cremona (1117-1197), as an axial figure in the wholesale reappraisal of the value of business, entrepreneurship, and white-collar work in Christian Europe. More precisely, Voss and Prudlo examine the evolution of the mentality of wealth and economics in the Catholic Church, beginning from the Scriptural disdain for material pursuits and moving to the eventually declared sainthood of Omobono, a lay merchant living amid the hectic rhythm of a life of business. As the authors note, "His story resonates today with an unexpected poignancy for the contribution it makes to the pressing issues of economic justice, free markets, work-life balance, the 'theology of work, ' and Catholic history." The reconstruction of the socio-theological perspective of wealth is a fascinating contribution to contemporary attempts to reconcile culture, capitalism, and the common good. Omobono stands as the first lay individual proposed by the Catholic Church as a model of heroic virtue, and thought him commercial life came thereby also to be 'canonized' as a possible path to sanctity.

Voss and Prudlo provide a rich resource for readers concerned with the proper aims and boundaries of a life in the world of commerce, the nature of work, the ethics of profit, the problem of money-lending, the virtues needed for moral capitalism, and the tension between otium and negotium. Voss and Prudlo have accumulated a veritable trove of primary text materials relating to the life of Omobono, and provide translations and commentary to complete their analysis. This fascinating account crosses the threshold of pure history and stimulates inquiry in the fields of philosophy, economics, and theology.


Author: Donald S. Prudlo, Paul J. Voss
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
Published: 04/11/2025
Pages: 315
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781587315138

About the Author
Paul J. Voss is President of Ethikos and Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University, and among his many accomplishments and publications Voss is the first professor of literature to address NATO in Executive Session.

Donald S. Prudlo is Warren Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa and the author of a number of books including Thomas Aquinas: A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait, Certain Sainthood, and The Martyred Inquisitor. His translation of Bartholomew of the Martyr's Stimulus Pastorum: A Charge to Pastors was published by St. Augustine's Press in 2022, and his Governing Perfection in May 2024.
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