Eugene McCarraher, the author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, does not think so. He discusses his 2019 book with Peter Mommsen at the Plough podcast: Listen here. A taste of the transcript: Capitalism,...
Eugene McCarraher
Critics of liberalism; critics of national conservativism
I missed this when it appeared last month. Several intellectuals, many from the world of religion and theology, published “An Open Letter Responding to the NatCon ‘Statement of Principles.’” Signers include Paul Griffiths, David Bentley Hart, Eugene McCarraher, John Milbank,...
THIS WEEK: The Conference of Faith and History AHA session on Eugene McCarraher’s The Enchantments of Mammon
Several scheduled sessions at this year’s annual meeting of the American Historical Association were moved to this week’s AHA22 Online conference. Each year the Conference on Faith and History sponsors a session at the AHA and due to COVID-19 related...
Three Sundays in April (Part 4)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOxuBs5sR_s&w=560&h=315] If you had thirty minutes to say something to the most powerful man in the world, what would you say? This is how I started our short series titled “Three Sundays in April.” On April 19, 2020, the...
Is Capitalism Good for Us?
Here is a very interesting debate between Mary Hirschfeld and Eugene McCarraher at Villanova University. Hirscheld is the author of Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy. McCarraher is the author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the...
David Bentley Hart Reviews Eugene McCarraher’s *The Enchantments of Mammon*
And he loves it. Here is a taste of Hart‘s review of McCarraher‘s new book: The Enchantments of Mammon is a magnificent book. It is, before all else, a sheer marvel of patient scholarship, history on a grand scale and in...