Download or read book Godliness and Greed written by Skip Worden and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skip Worden shows the profound transformation of Christian thought on economics from the beginning of the Commercial Revolution to the fifteenth-century Renaissance. Worden explains how the general antagonism toward the pursuit of wealth before the Commercial Revolution turned into Protestant theologians' fighting against the prevailing view of a pro-wealth paradigm during the fifteenth century.