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Thinking With Murray About The “War On Terror”, Thomas W. O'Brien Jun 2009

Thinking With Murray About The “War On Terror”, Thomas W. O'Brien

Thomas W O'Brien

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Religious Perspectives On Business Ethics, Scott Paeth, Thomas O'Brien Mar 2009

Religious Perspectives On Business Ethics, Scott Paeth, Thomas O'Brien

Thomas W O'Brien

In the first anthology of its kind, Thomas O'Brien and Scott Paeth have gathered unique pieces from across religious perspectives to illustrate the growing influence and contribution of religion to the field of business ethics. Tackling such wide-ranging subjects as Jewish environmental ethics, Zen in the workplace, and Christian social ethics, this text is a valuable addition to business ethics courses.

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Options For The Poor In Twelfth And Thirteenth-Century Europe, Thomas W. O'Brien Dec 2003

Options For The Poor In Twelfth And Thirteenth-Century Europe, Thomas W. O'Brien

Thomas W O'Brien

This essay uses the lens of the "preferential option for the poor" to examine the unprecedented turn to poverty by religious movements in late twelfth and early thirteenth-century Western Europe. Three movements are selected from the many and various movements espousing poverty: the Humiliati, the Waldensians, and the Franciscans. The Humiliati developed a communal lifestyle that, in key ways, reflected the emerging urban working class. The Waldensians embraced a radical poverty that rejected all forms of property, but they were progressively marginalized from Catholicism and eventually became targets of the Inquisition. The Franciscans adopted a very similar sort of radical …

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