Thomas Woods, senior fellow in history, has won the Templeton Enterprise Award for his book The Church and the Market (Lexington, 2005). More news here.
The prize is $50,000.
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Woods: First Place Templeton Book Award
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Woods certainly deserves the prize. I’ve read his works and I think he deserves credit for his accommplishments. “The Church and The Market†and “The Church Confronts Modernity†are excellent additions to the modern literature on the free market and its relationship to the Catholic Church. While, of course, there are issues which he does not address in the books, the issues that he does cover are well done.
I knew he was an historian worth reading when one of his first footnotes in “The Church Confronts Modernity” was to one of my favorite works, T. Jackson Lears’
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture: 1880-1920″, as well as “I’ll Take My Stand”. Any historian who understands the importance of these works is on his way to a great grasp of American culture!
Just a thought.
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Wow! This is exactly what the Catholic Church needs. In fact, I would go further. It was the Catholic Church that taught me in Catholic schools about the Holy Spirit nature of God, and human free will. They ARE a doctrine of faith. How they could start out assuming that part of God’s nature on faith and end up with all these economic/political philosophies that treat human action as a greedy, inherently evil, poor-people hating beast that must be beaten low is beyond belief. Worst of all, I get that anti faith sewage shoved down my throat in Church!
Way to go, Thomas! Congratulations!
Woods scored a well-deserved New York Times Best-Seller with his Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, possibly exceeding at least in impact the books of his discussed above.
And, even better, ANOTHER Mises scholar’s Politically Incorrect Guide is released TODAY (February 15), this one to CAPITALISM. It is by none other than Robert Murphy.
My copy is on pre-order (Amazon), and I can’t wait for it to arrive. Better clear out another place on that NYT Best-Seller’s list!
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. (I’ve been traveling all day and just saw them now.) And yes, Bob Murphy’s book promises to be excellent, though its official release date is April 25. The most recent PIG, which was released this very week, is The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism).
The older I get the more I realize the church does not teach how evil men are but rather it teaches us that unless we follow the teaching of Christ we are going to become evil.
Christ was very emphatic about how men should be free by treating all persons lovingly. This in many ways meant that we should be free to think as we saw fit but by doing so we would realize that we could not expect others to respect us unless we had respect for them.
More and more I am finding the church is telling us how to act as free men with “love” for all and we don’t seem to listen. We tend to want to get “even” with our fellow man and punish them in the most brutal ways when all we need is a stable society where “love” conquers all.
Our enlitened church leaders all teach the importance of respect for others. All you have to do is listen and do as they teach , from the teaching of Christ.
You don’t have to be a Christian to follow these directions, but Christians have a better chance to understand- At least in my way of thinking.
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