God and Mammon Concepts

The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912

by Thomas Pakenham · 19 Nov 1991 · 1,194pp · 371,889 words

routes to the East, via Suez and the Cape. That meant digging in at both ends of Africa. And it was in Protestant Britain, where God and Mammon seemed made for each other, that Livingstone’s words struck the deepest chord. The ‘3 cs’ would redeem Africa. That was not the way Africans

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, their loyalties were so divided. Imagine the dilemma of the chairman, Ferdinand de Lesseps. How to serve four masters at the same time: Leopold, France, God and Mammon? Brazza felt no such division in his loyalty. He was heart and soul behind his adopted country. He made a renewed appeal to Jauréguiberry, brazenly

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world’s attitude to colonies in the twenty-seven years since the end of the First World War. Gone was the empire-building alliance of God and Mammon that had helped to launch the Scramble. Now the imperialists were on the defensive. Both the men of God and the men of business had

God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 31 Mar 2009 · 518pp · 143,914 words

first settlers were religious zealots, fleeing from persecution; some were businessmen, bent on making money; and still others were a combination of the two, worshipping God and Mammon at the same time (and, in Max Weber’s view, worshipping Mammon all the more successfully because they worshipped God). The hundred or so settlers

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, whose building sports a 108-foot-tall cross. Appropriately enough, the Southern Baptist Convention building is situated on Commerce Street. Nashville is the place where God and Mammon happily coexist. Some of the religious businesses are service businesses catering to the local faithful: 7 percent of the city’s business travelers are part

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H Naylor and David Horsey · 1 Jan 2001 · 378pp · 102,966 words

power of wealth, the power of money,” says Dr. Richard Swenson, a physician who lectures widely in evangelical churches. “Christ says you cannot serve both God and Mammon. He didn’t say it’s hard, it’s difficult, it’s tricky. He said it’s impossible.”10 In fact, one of Jesus’s

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religion that doesn’t complicate my life with unreasonable ethical demands.” It’s an obvious play on Christ’s declaration that “you cannot serve both God and Mammon.” “We’re not the biggest player in the spiritual arena, but we’re the fastest growing,” the Mammon anti-ad declares. It’s a subtle

The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

by Jacob Soll · 28 Apr 2014 · 382pp · 105,166 words

with interest.”18 Matthew was not clear on whether it is man’s duty to create bounty on the earth. He warned, “You cannot serve God and Mammon.” Humans were supposed to work hard, make money, but recognize that in the end, it was only Mammon, or sinful greed. Over and over again

Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets

by John Plender · 27 Jul 2015 · 355pp · 92,571 words

crises.3 Then came the New Testament, with its low view of worldly goods and its uncompromising assertion that it was impossible to serve both God and Mammon. Jesus had no time for the rich, suggesting that it was well-nigh impossible for them to enter the kingdom of heaven. And then, of

The Enlightened Capitalists

by James O'Toole · 29 Dec 2018 · 716pp · 192,143 words

Harvard Divinity School as a graduate student in theology, and commuted to his company headquarters in Maine to spend two and half days a week. GOD AND MAMMON Chappell had always been a devote Episcopalian, but he had kept his business interests separate from his spiritual life. That changed in 1986 after a

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes · 17 Sep 2012 · 1,437pp · 384,709 words

to the commercialization of scientific research, telling his Russian protégé Peter Kapitza, for example, when Kapitza was offered consulting work in industry, “You cannot serve God and Mammon at the same time.”121 The mystery bears on what C. P. Snow, who knew him, calls the “one curious exception” to Rutherford’s “infallible

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Revival Cavendish Laboratory that Clerk Maxwell had founded, at the university where Newton wrote his great Principia, and kindly told him he could not serve God and Mammon at the same time. It seems probable that the news that the distinguished director of the Cavendish had written the Olympian Lord Kelvin about the

God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

by Gerald Posner · 3 Feb 2015 · 1,590pp · 353,834 words

a Parish Priest (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2000), Google ebook edition 2011, 88–89; Hoffman, Anatomy of the Vatican, 64; Alexander L. Taylor III, “God and Mammon in Chicago,” Time, September 21, 1981; Linda Witt and John McGuire, “A Deepening Scandal Over Church Funds Rocks a Cardinal and His Controversial Cousin,” People

Bad Company

by Megan Greenwell · 18 Apr 2025 · 385pp · 103,818 words

journalism as a moral imperative: “The apostles Peter and Luke both admonish against that most common of human frailties—the allure of attempting to serve God and Mammon simultaneously. From roughly 1960 to about the middle of this decade, newspaper publishers seemed to think they had managed somehow to roll this dictate back

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base of (largely leveraged) capital, nobody is talking about public service nearly as much as paying the bills. When it comes to the news business, God and Mammon are no longer BFFs.” Thornton was hardly a foe to the finance world—he had made his fortune in venture capital and would go on

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words

-year struggle to overturn Roe v. Wade, the religious right can claim victory on its core issue. But in that same period, the merger of God and mammon diluted key Christian principles about wealth, greed, and poverty. Instead of a benevolent being that punishes the greedy and protects the poor, the fusionists’ state