Counting the Cost

Financial Decision-Making, Discipleship, and Christian Living

Clemens Sedmak, Kelli Reagan Hickey (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2023
Liturgical Press (Verlag)
978-0-8146-6933-4 (ISBN)

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What difference would Catholic Social Tradition make if it guided our personal and communal financial decision-making? The Sermon on the Mount reminds us of this fundamental decision-making when it comes to questions of faith and money: “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth” (Matthew 6:24). In Counting the Cost, Clemens Sedmak and Kelli Reagan Hickey suggest a theological and spiritual discernment process for the everyday reality of budgeting and financial planning that explores the status of money and monetary values by reflecting on this gospel call.

Counting the Cost explains how Catholic Social Teaching provides a framework for our thinking around finances by answering questions such as: What does this fundamental decision look like in times of financial scarcity and stewardship responsibilities? How do the attitudes that Jesus invites us into shape the ways we make financial decisions? And how can budgeting be and become a way of discipleship for individuals, parishes, and dioceses? The book includes a range of financial decision-making examples and reconstructs them as decisions about priorities, values, and commitments to respond to the world and its material realities in a gospel-inspired way.

Clemens Sedmak is a professor of theology and Catholic social tradition advisor in the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a concurrent professor of social ethics and interim director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs. Kelli Reagan Hickey is a writer and student of Catholic Social Tradition. She serves as the director of formation for the Francesco Collaborative, a team inspired by the Economy of Francesco Movement and the emerging solidarity economy. She holds a degree in economics from Yale University and completed her graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1

Chapter One
Show Me Your Budget!
Financial Decisions as Value Statements 13
Chapter Two
Budgeting on the Ground 46
Chapter Three
A Theology of Budgeting? 76
Chapter Four
Catholic Social Teaching as a Compass 107
Chapter Five
Budgeting as Discipleship: Four Guiding Principles 135

A Compass for Financial Discerning 158
The Kaleidoscope 163
Bibliography 164

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Enacting Catholic Social Tradition
Verlagsort	Collegeville, MN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-8146-6933-6 / 0814669336
ISBN-13	978-0-8146-6933-4 / 9780814669334
Zustand	Neuware