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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.
Contents
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
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