{"id":40361,"date":"2013-10-03T02:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_baker-christ-like_capitalism_god_mammon_and_the_church_of_england\/"},"modified":"2013-10-03T02:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:00:25","slug":"david_baker-christ-like_capitalism_god_mammon_and_the_church_of_england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40361","title":{"rendered":"David Baker&#8211;Christ-like capitalism? God, mammon and the Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Capitalism With A Human Face&#8217; was the title of a well-known book written by Sir Samuel Brittan, a leading economic commentator, shortly before the year 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the financial calamities of the first decade of the 21st century have revealed that \u201d\u201c sometimes at least \u201d\u201c capitalism has a very far from human face. Indeed, more than occasionally it has seemed to have the countenance of a monster.<\/p>\n<p>But now, under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, it looks as though the Church of England is attempting to give capitalism the opportunity to develop a new appearance \u201d\u201c even a Christ-like face.<\/p>\n<p>The start of this month has seen the news that Justin Welby is hoping to draw up a ten-year action plan with the aim of forcing payday lenders such as Wonga out of business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/christ.like.capitalism.god.mammon.and.the.church.of.england\/34218.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Capitalism With A Human Face&#8217; was the title of a well-known book written by Sir Samuel Brittan, a leading economic commentator, shortly before the year 2000. Sadly, the financial calamities of the first decade of the 21st century have revealed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40361\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,382,74,67,389,582,589,149,199,168,593,108,585,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}