God's Marshall Plan
A new history documenting the transatlantic roots of Christian democracy
God's Marshall Plan explores the Protestant mission to reconstruct the "Christian West" out of the ruins of world war. It follows the Protestant pastors, missionaries, and diplomats who drew upon the wellsprings of Protestant theology to counteract totalitarian dictators and fashion a new politics of Christian democracy. Their struggle for Europe's soul refined competing visions of Christianity's public role in the Cold War world and beyond.
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A fresh account of the spiritual values that shaped modern economic life
Heavenly Exchange explores the complex interplay between Christian spirituality and the capitalist marketplace, recovering the primeval accounts of psychic energy and creative destruction, the visions of a united world economy, and the defenses of spontaneous markets that shaped the rise of modern global capitalism.