- abstract market, 43
- Adam and Eve, 28, 33, 48, 49, 270–273
- Adam Smith as Theologian, Paul Williams, 152
- Adams, Henry, 226
- Adoptionists, 56
- advertising: equivalence to evangelism, 83; equivalence to “phishing,” 83; use of storytelling, 83–84; of indulgences, 94; as creator of pseudo community, 153; to children, 200; focus groups in, 233–234; data mining in, 234; targeted at “lifestyle clusters,” 235; as creator of desires, 235–237; historic role in spurring consumption, 236; direct appeal to emotion, 238; to build “loyalty,” 238–239; of mayonnaise brands, 239–240
- Aeneid, Virgil, 144
- agent orange, 52
- Agnew, Jean-Christophe, 178–179
- Ailes, Roger, 198–199
- Akerlof, George, 81–83
- Albert of Brandenburg, 94
- Alcoholics Anonymous, 66
- Alexander VI, Pope, 91
- Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, 133
- American Bankers Association, 257
- Ancient City, by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, 212
- Ansari, Sabiha, 214
- “Antiquorum Habet Fida Relatio,” 89
- Aquinas, Thomas, 7, 25, 158–159, 194, 241
- “Amazing Grace”: fragrance brand, 210; protestant hymn, 211
- “America’s Capacity to Produce,” 237
- Anabaptists, 26
- Anselm, 260
- Antipope: as heretics, 30; Clement III, 173
- Arius, 57
- Assemblies of God, 120
- Assumption of Mary, doctrine of, 29, 95, 226–227
- Athanasius of Alexandria, 260
- Augustine, Saint: bishop of Hippo, 131; adversary of Pelagius, 131–140; youthful explorations in faith, 132–133; organizer of Council of Carthage, 135; triumph over Donatists, 137; financial backing by nobles, 137; Manichean influence, 138–139; opposition by Julian, bishop of Eclanum, 138–140; on original sin, 138; idea of wealth as “charisma,” 139; recognition of akrasia, 151; distinction between City of God and City of Man, 202; concept of evil as disordered, 258; teaching on love, 269
- Aum Shinrikyo sect, 245
- Avignonese papacy, 111–114
- axial age, 174
- Ayer, A. J., 180
- Bair, Sheila, 257
- Bank of America, 277
- banking: “too big to fail,” 7, 265; bailouts, 16, 258; historical emergence of, 42, 79; managers protected from liability, 54–55; Biblical reference to, 76, 164; predatory lending by, 81–82, 104; influence on church practice, 92; lending to developing economies, 96; proposed reforms of Vatican Bank, 97–98; executive compensation, 103; product innovation by, 105–106; megabanks, 115–118; lending strategies, 117; regulation of, 117–118, 262; appeal to graduates, 118; spread of “banking mentality,” 177–180; Sheila Bair admonition to, 257; betting against clients, 257; targets of public ire, 258; anticompetitive scheming, 262; community banks, 268; advancing technologies, 277; branch closings, 276–277
- Barnum, P. T., 83, 180, 183
- Barth, Karl, 7, 25
- Basil, Saint, 77
- Balasuriya, Tissa, 207
- Bear Stearns, 103
- beatification, 147
- Becket, Saint Thomas à, 15
- Bellah, Robert, 174
- Benedict, Saint, 203
- Benedict XVI, Pope (Monsignor Joseph Ratzinger), 25, 207, 276
- Benedict XIV, Pope, 207
- Berle, Adolf, 62
- Berrigan, Daniel, 172
- Besra, Monica, 147–148
- Bhopal, India, cyanide release disaster, 51–52
- Black Friday, 214–218
- BNP Paribas, 54
- Boniface VII, Pope, 89
- Boniface VIII, Pope, 259
- Boniface IX, Pope, 90
- Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal), 17, 115, 232, 261
- Borges, Luis, 84
- Botticelli, 91
- brand loyalty, 238–239
- Brookings Institution, 237
- Brown, Peter, 110–111
- Bryan, William Jennings, 263
- Buber, Martin, 159
- Bulger, James “Whitey,” 51
- Business Roundtable, 63–66
- Cage, John, 264
- Calvin, John, 17, 26, 79, 151, 175
- Calvinism, school of thought, 8; orthodoxy, 25; allowance of interest, 79; opposition to Pelagianism, 135; influence on Adam Smith, 150–151, 156–157, 159–160; influence on Herman Melville, 184–185; rejection of Christmas, 220; view of Virgin Mary, 230
- Campbell, John, 23
- canonization, 146–150
- Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, 89
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty, 86, 103–104
- Capitalism for the People, Luigi Zingales, 118
- Carnegie, Andrew, 177
- cash-value metaphor, 180
- casino economy, 102, 107
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog, 36–37
- Cecchetti, Stephen G., 116–118
- Chan, Gerald L., 13
- Chanukah, 212
- Chartres Cathedral, 40, 42, 226
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, 89
- Chauvet Cave, 36–37, 39–40
- Chauvet, Jean-Marie, 36
- Cheskin, Louis, 205
- Chicago Stock Exchange, 67
- China: economic ascent, 64; offshoring to, 65; American trade deficit with, 67; purchase of Chicago Stock Exchange, 67; ancient religion, 165; growing Pentecostalism, 190, 207; Nestorian Christians in, 205; Chinese rites controversy, 206–207
- Chinese rites controversy, 206–207
- The Christian Century, 248
- Christianity and the Social Crisis, Walter Rauschenbusch, 248
- Christmas: opening of the Holy Door on, 90; influence on Chanukah, 212; gift-shopping frenzy, 214; history of, 219–224; evolving portrayal of wise men, 220–222; Macy’s parade, 224
- Citibank, 277
- Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, 56
- City of God, Saint Augustine, 133
- city upon a hill, 203
- Clement III, Pope, 173
- Clement V, Pope, 112
- Clement VI, Pope, 90
- Clement XI, Pope, 206
- Coffin, the Reverend William Sloan, 172
- Colander, David, 31–32
- Cold War, 154, 238
- Coles, Robert, 63
- Compostela, 95–96
- Confession, sacrament of, 78, 232–233, 235–236
- The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, Herman Melville, 182–185
- Congregation for the Causes of Saints, 146
- Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 25, 207
- co-ops, worker-owned firms, 218, 267
- corporate social responsibility, 61, 63, 68
- Council of Tours, 110
- Council of Vienne, 78
- Counter-Reformation, 226
- creative destruction in capitalist systems, 193
- Crusades, 16, 92, 113, 206
- Currency price rigging (manipulation in foreign exchanges), 262
- Dante Alighieri, 71, 77, 90
- Dawkins, Richard, 18, 250–251
- The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler, 252
- Derivatives, 102, 106, 114, 238
- Dershowitz, Alan, 251
- devil’s advocate, 149
- Diamandis, Peter, 277
- Dillinger, John, 51
- Dirkson, Everett, 103
- “Discourse upon Usury,” Thomas Wilson, 79–80
- Disney, 215
- dispensations, 44, 113, 245,
- Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, 90
- divine right of kings, 173–174, 259
- Donatists, 137
- Dow Chemical, 52
- Doxology, 187
- Duomo di Milano, 125
- Eastern Orthodoxy, 25, 29, 133, 206, 260
- Econometrics of Financial Markets, John Campbell et al., 23
- Economist as Preacher and Other Essays, George J. Stigler, 24
- Edwards, Jonathan, 159
- efficient market hypothesis, 29–30
- 1812 Overture, 264
- Eliot, T. S., 244
- Elizabeth, Queen of Britain, 32
- The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama, 245–246
- Enlightenment, 247
- Environmental Protection Agency, 13
- Erikson, Erik, 59, 63–64
- eschatology, 7, 244–245
- Euromonitor International, 213
- Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), Pope Francis, 3
- evolutionary theory, 159, 174, 247, 249–252, 271–272
- existentialism, 50, 159
- Facebook, 235
- Faith and History, Reinhold Niebuhr, 247
- Fama, Eugene, 29–30
- Fatima, 41, 215, 226
- Federal Reserve, 117, 258, 266
- financial crisis of 2008, 7, 32, 101, 103–104, 117, 257, 260
- financialization, 102–103, 108, 257
- finite deity, 9
- Finnegan, Paul J., 14
- First Vatican Council, 29
- Foucault, Michel, 232, 235–236
- Fox News, 198
- Franciscans, 79–80, 206
- Frankfort, Henri, 38
- free will, 50–51, 132–135
- French Revolution, 28
- Frost, Robert, 253
- Fukuyama, Francis, 245
- Fustel de Coulanges, Numa Denis, 212
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 53, 60
- GE (General Electric), 67, 107–108
- Geertz, Clifford, 256
- gift cultures, 34
- Gilson, Etienne, 25
- Goldman Sachs, 116–117
- Gould, Stephen Jay, 242–243, 250
- Graeber, David, 41–42
- Graham, Billy, 168
- Great Recession of 2008–2012, 7, 103, 114
- The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi, 9
- Greenspan, Alan, 7
- Gregory of Tours, 110
- Gregory VII, Pope, 173
- Gregory XIII, Pope, 95
- growth-itis, 115, 119, 122
- Guthrie, Woody, 276
- Gutierrez, Fr. Gustavo of Peru, 45
- habitus, 241
- Hales, Steven, 224
- Hampton Creek, 239–240
- Harris, Sam, 18,
- Hartman Center, Jerusalem, 58
- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 14
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 159, 247
- Heilbroner, Robert, 162
- Henry IV, 173
- Henry, James, 97
- heroic virtue, 146
- Herzog, Werner, 36
- Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua, 163, 174, 185
- Hess, Fred, 14
- Hilfiger, Tommy, 213
- Hinduism, 19, 52, 58, 245
- Holy Spirit, 56, 186–191, 197, 226
- Howe, Julia Ward, 227–228
- human body as metaphor, 39–40, 53
- human gene vending, 11
- Hus, Jon, 112
- identity crisis, 64–66
- identity model, 63
- The Imitation of Christ, 145
- Immaculate Conception, doctrine of, 96, 226
- Immelt, Jeffrey, 67
- Inequality, of income and wealth, 17, 66, 85, 102–104, 107
- Indulgences, sale of, 12, 44, 89–97, 114, 140
- Industrial Revolution, 192, 221, 247
- Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, 25, 145, 157–158
- International Monetary Fund (IMF), 71, 96
- Invisible Hand, 11, 145, 150
- Isidore of Seville, Saint, 148
- Jakes, T. D., 121
- James, William, 179–180, 192
- Jarvis, Ann Reeves, 227–229
- Jarvis, Anna, 227–229
- Jaspers, Karl, 174
- Jesuits, 26, 94, 172, 206–207
- Jesus: objection to money changers, 38–39; divinity reconciled with monotheism, 56; focus on poor, 70–71, 163; parable of unmerciful servant, 75–76; parable of talents, 76; pursuing spirit versus letter of law, 81; reference to Jubilee Year, 88–89; basis for indulgences, 92; Pope Francis view of ministry, 96–97; advice to rich young ruler, 109; Sermon on the Mount, 101, 114; Saint Augustine’s interpretation of warnings on wealth, 139; prophets as predictors of, 163; focus on worldly issues, 163; parable of good Samaritan, 164; parable of prodigal son, 164; continuing prophetic tradition, 172; connection to Holy Spirit, 187, 189; great commission by, 190–191, 197; welcoming children, 200; Christmas as celebration of birth, 219–220; free of original sin, 226; warning against serving God and Mammon, 242; view of Sabbath, 242; decrying hypocrisy, 261
- Jobs, Steve, 238
- John F. Kennedy School of Government, 14
- John Henry Cardinal Newman, 29
- John Paul II, Pope, 45
- John XXIII, Pope, 146, 149, 207
- Johnson, President Lyndon B., 152
- Jones, the Reverend David, 80–81
- JP Morgan Chase, 76, 117, 277
- Jubilee of Mercy Year, 96
- Jubilee Year, 71, 85–89, 93–97
- Julian, bishop of Eclanum, 138–140
- Jung, Carl, 64, 227
- just price, 26, 41
- Kant, Immanuel, 60, 159, 247
- Kaufman, Gordon, 262
- kenosis, 185
- Keynes, John Maynard, 25, 27
- Kharroubi, Enisses, 116–117
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 164, 172
- Kohlberg, Lawrence, 59–60
- Kotlikoff, Laurence, 97
- Krugman, Paul, 16
- Küng, Hans, 30
- Lakewood Church, 121
- “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis, 5
- Law of Complexity-Consciousness, 271
- Lee, William F., 13
- Lehman Brothers, 258
- Leo Burnett Company, 233
- Leo X, Pope, 93, 112,
- Leo XIII, Pope, 44, 95
- Letter to Demetrias, Pelagius, 135–136
- liberation theology, 25, 45, 111, 159
- Liebenberg, Germany, 11–13
- Lille, Alain de, 42
- limited liability, 48–50, 54
- Lincoln, President Abraham, 151
- liturgical year, 7, 171, 211–214, 228
- Lo, Andrew, 23
- logical positivists, 178
- London School of Economics, 32
- Lourdes, 41, 95, 215, 226
- Luther, Martin, 12, 24, 92–93, 112, 220, 233
- Lutheran Orthodoxy, 25
- MacKinlay, Craig, 23
- Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, 224
- Maddox, Marion, 122
- managerial revolution, 62
- Mander, Jerry, 200, 235
- Manichaeists, 132, 138–139
- Marcel, Gabriel, 159
- Marian devotion, 226, 230
- Maritain, Jacques, 25
- Marshall Plan, 154
- Martin V, Pope, 90
- Martini, Cardinal Jose-Maria of Milan, 276
- Marx, Karl, 247
- Marxism, 159, 245, 247
- McDonalds, 93, 204–205, 208
- Means, Gardiner, 62
- megabanks: defined, 115; as contributors to financialization, 116–117; attempt to regulate, 117–118; as employers of choice, 118; infected by “growth-itis,” 128
- megachurches, 115, 119–128; subject to “growth-itis,” 119, 122; defined, 119; globally, 119; Yoido Full Gospel Church, 119–121; in America, 121; shaped by business models, 122; as enablers of anonymity, 123–124; physical architecture, 124–125; attraction of, 125–126; customer orientation, 126–127; threat posed to small congregations, 128
- Melville, Herman, 182–185
- mercantilists, 143
- The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare, 71
- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 91
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare, 181
- Milan market, 44, 125
- miracles: wrought by saints, 147–148; wrought by The Market, 153–155
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 182, 184, 268
- Moira, as fate or destiny, 246–247, 249, 253
- money changers, 38, 172
- money laundering, 97
- Monks, Robert, 53
- monotheism: tension with Holy Trinity, 56; in Muslim and Jewish faiths, 58; of ancient Israelites, 167, 254; in Genesis, 269–270; as source of conflict, 273
- mont-de-piété (or bank of pity), 80
- Monte Cassino, 203
- Moore, Clement, 222
- Morgensen, Gretchen, 118
- Morris, Simon Conway, 250–251
- Moses, 86–87, 164, 171
- Mother’s Day, 225–230
- Mothers’ Friendship Day, 227, 228
- Mother Teresa of Kolkata, 19, 31, 147–148, 155
- Mumford, Lewis, 35, 42–43
- myth of origin, 5, 33–34, 48, 144
- narcissistic entitlement, 63, 65
- natural theology, 155, 157–158, 160
- neoclassical economics, 25
- neo-Thomism movement, 25
- Nestorian Christians, 205
- Newton, Isaac, 160
- Newton, John, 211
- Nicholas, bishop of Myra, 221
- Nicholas V, Pope, 91
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 25–26, 45, 50, 247–249
- Nielsen Company, 199
- Nietzsche, 21, 248
- Ninety-Five Theses, 12, 93
- Nissenbaum, Stephen, 222
- Norris, Floyd, 259–260
- Nourse, Edwin, 237
- Novak, Michael, 194–195
- Noyes, John Humphrey, 203
- Obama, Barack, 13, 26, 121, 211
- Occupy Wall Street, 101, 107
- Omega point, 248–249, 272,
- Oneida Community, 204
- On the Grace of Christ, Saint Augustine, 136
- On the Trinity, Saint Augustine, 133
- Oscar de la Renta, 213
- Origen, 257
- Osteen, Joel, 121
- Panikkar, Raymond, 58
- papal infallibility, 24, 28–29
- parable of the good Samaritan, 164
- parable of the dishonest steward, 164
- parable of the unmerciful servant, 75
- parable of the talents, 76, 164
- Pascal, Blaise, 7, 26
- patrimony of the poor, 110–111
- Paul II, Pope, 91
- Paul VI, Pope, 95
- Peale, Norman Vincent, 121
- Pelagianism, 131–138, 140, 151
- Pelagius, 131–138, 140, 151
- Pentecostalism, 119–120, 169, 189–190, 205, 207, 209
- perichoresis, 57
- Perugino, Pietro, 91
- philosophical theology, 157
- Philosophy, the brand owned by Coty, 210–211
- phishing, 81–84
- Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deceit, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, 81
- physiocrats, 143
- Pietists, 220
- Piketty, Thomas, 86, 103–104
- pilgrims, 38–41, 89–90, 93–96, 113, 172, 215, 227
- Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto), 91
- Pius XI, Pope, 95
- Pius XII, Pope, 29, 95, 97, 226
- Plato, 241
- Polanyi, Karl, 9
- Pope Francis: naming of deified market, 3, 256; knowledge of poverty, 4; concern for climate, 5; outspokenness regarding inequality and poverty, 6, 26, 172; challenging market faith, 20–21; shifting ecclesial attention from bedroom to boardroom, 27; echoing liberation theology themes, 45; inveighing against indifference, 70; announcement of Jubilee Year, 96–98; concerns about Vatican Bank, 97–98; focus on justice, 111; canonizations by, 146–147; resonance with Adam Smith, 175; meeting with Orthodox Patriarch, 206; inclination toward decentralization, 276
- Potter’s House, 121
- The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale, 121
- pragmatism: of market, 138; in William James’ philosophy, 179–180
- Princeps Pastorum, Pope John XXIII, 207
- Principia (Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica), Isaac Newton, 160
- process theology, 9, 185
- prophecy, Hebrew tradition, 162–175, 185, 189, 261, 273
- Prophet Mohamet, 213, 230, 275
- prosperity gospel, 70, 122–123, 223
- Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber, 186–187, 192
- Protestant Reformation, 80, 93–94, 101, 112, 131, 218, 220, 226
- Providence, doctrine of, 18, 145, 157, 247
- psychological determinism, 50
- Puritans, 79, 158, 204, 220
- Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren, 121
- Quintianus, bishop of Rodez, 110
- Ramadan, 213, 230
- Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki), 265, 269
- Rauschenbusch, Walter, 44–45, 248–249
- rational decision-maker, 17–18, 82–83, 151, 198
- Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), 217–218
- religious socialism, 45
- remittances,
- Rerum Novarum, 44
- responsibility: as essential human trait, 48; of Adam and Eve, 49; link to free will, 50; avoidance by limited liability, 51; as contested in Bhopal disaster, 52; corporate social obligations, 61, 66, 68; as defined by The Business Roundtable, 63, 65; of wealthy toward poor, 70, 111; gained in the “Axial Age,” 174; for creative work, 194; assigned by God to creation, 266, 270–274; link to freedom, 272–273
- restoratio humani, 260–264, 266, 270, 276, 278
- Retail Metrics, 217
- Ricci, Matteo, 206–207
- Riverside Church, Manhattan, 172, 230
- robber barons, 61
- Roberts, John, 215–216
- Rockefeller, John D., 24, 177, 261–262
- Rocks of Ages, Stephen Jay Gould, 242
- Romero, Archbishop Óscar of San Salvador, 45, 147
- Roose, Kevin, 106–107
- Roosevelt, President Theodore, 61
- Rothbard, Murray, 143–144
- Royce, Josiah, 239
- Ruiz, Bishop Samuel of Chiapas, 45
- Sabbath, 81, 86–87, 168, 177, 242, 262,
- Sabbath Year, 87
- Sabellians, 56
- Saddleback Church, 122
- Saint Paul, 7, 18, 28, 39, 50, 53, 146, 151, 159, 184, 188–190, 210, 233,
- sainthood, process of gaining, 146–149
- Sandel, Michael, 259
- Santa Claus, 220–224
- Schopenhauer, Arthur, 248
- Schudson, Michael, 233–234
- Schumpeter, Joseph, 193
- Second Vatican Council, 45, 96, 272
- Securitized mortgages, 43, 105–106, 202, 238
- sensus fidelium, 31
- 7-Eleven, 93
- Shakespeare, William, 71, 77, 181
- shape shifting, 50–52
- Shapiro, Karen, 234
- Shiller, Robert, 81–83
- ShopperTrak, 217
- simony, 113
- Sistine Chapel, 91
- Sixtus IV, Pope, 91
- Smith, Adam: place in The Market religion, 25, 31, 141; as Market founder, 142–145; as Market patron saint, 148–155; as Market theologian, 156–162; as Market prophet, 175; believer in progress, 247
- social gospel, 44, 248
- social imaginary, 35, 43 176, 180
- sovereign debt, 71, 98
- Spengler, Oswald, 252
- Spirits of Globalisation, Sturla J. Stålsett, ed., 208
- stakeholders, 61–62, 65–66, 68, 149
- Stigler, George J., 24
- Stoicism, 158–159
- Stritzke, Jerry, 218
- A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee, 252
- Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas, 25
- Synod of Diospolis, 134
- Talent, migration to financial sector, 106–107, 118
- Taylor, Charles, 35
- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 264
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 159, 248–250, 271–272
- television watching, 199–200
- Tennessee monkey trial, 243, 263
- Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus), 18
- Tetzel, Johann, 12
- theodicy, 9
- Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, 142, 150, 153, 158, 175
- theosis, 260
- Thomists, 8, 25
- Thompson, John, 176
- Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Richard Strauss, 181
- Tillich, Paul, 45, 50, 159
- Tobin, James, 106–107, 118
- Tower of Babel, 115, 201, 274
- Toynbee, Arnold, 252
- trade deficit, America’s with China, 67
- tragic entanglement, 50
- transubstantiation, 10
- treasury of merit, 92
- trickster archetype, 181–185
- Tuchman, Barbara, 113
- tulip mania of 1637, 169
- Turan, Kenneth, 37
- Twain, Mark, 251
- ultramontanists, 28
- Unilever, 239–240
- Union Carbide, 51–52
- United Airlines, 233–234
- universalists, 190
- “Unum Sanctum,” Pope Boniface VIII, 259
- Urban II, Pope, 92
- Urban VI, Pope, 90
- usury, or charging interest on a loan, 71–81, 84
- Vatican Bank, 97–98
- Vespasian (Emperor Caesar Vespasianus Augustus), 278
- Verrocchio, Andrea del, 91
- Viner, Jacob, 156
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), 144
- Virgin Mary, 29, 95, 187, 225–226, 229–231
- “A Visit from Saint Nicholas,” Clement Moore, 222
- Vladimir, Saint, 144
- Voegelin, Eric, 174
- Walmart, 68, 126, 193, 204, 214–215
- Wanamaker, John, 227–228
- Warren, Rick, 121
- The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, 25, 145, 157–158
- Weber, Max, 186–187, 192
- Weil, Simone, 153
- Wesley, John, 150
- What Money Can’t Buy, Michael Sandel, 259
- Whitehead, Alfred North, 185
- Williams, Paul, 152
- Williams, Raymond, 236
- Willow Creek Community Church, 121
- Wilson, Charles, 63
- Wilson, Thomas, 79–80
- Wilson, President Woodrow, 228
- Winthrop, John, 159
- Wirtschaftswunder, 154
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 178
- Wolf, Martin, 257
- worker priests, 45
- World Bank, 71, 96–97
- Yates, Sally, 54
- Yellen, Janet, 117
- Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, 119–120, 190
- You Are The Message, Roger Ailes, 199
- Young Money, Kevin Roose, 106
- Zeus, 9, 49, 246, 253, 259
- Zingales, Luigi, 118
- Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb, 265, 272
- Zosimus, Pope, 138
- Zwingli, Huldrych, 112