Introduction / Charles R. Strain -- Evangelical Protestant perspectives on American economic life -- Thinking about the poor : what Evangelicals can learn from the Bishops / Richard J. Mouw -- A lesson in constructive theology / Robert K. Johnston -- Wealth and well-being : the bishops and their critics / Eugene R. Dykema -- The bishops and third world poverty / Mark R. Amstutz -- Jewish perspectives on American economic life -- The U.S. Catholic Bishops' Pastoral Letter on the economy and Jewish tradition / Byron L. Sherwin -- The bishops and the poor : a Jewish critique / Arnold Jacob Wolf -- The prophetic tradition and social transformation / Frida Kerner Furman -- Bishop, rabbis, and prophets / Leonard Fein -- Mainline Protestant perspectives on American economic life -- The morality of power and the power of morality / Larry Rasmussen -- Graceless poverty and the poverty of grace / Timothy F. Sedgwick -- Proverty and policy : the many faces of the poor / Rebecca M. Blank -- The churches and the corporations / Paul F. Camenisch -- Roman Catholic perspectives on American economic life -- Beyond Madison and Marx : civic virtue, solidarity, and justice in American culture / Charles R. Strain -- New experiment in democracy : blueprint for political economy? / Dennis P. McCann -- Women and dignity : vision and practice / Ann O'Harra Graff -- Individualism, intredependence, and the common good : rapprochement between economic theory and Catholic social thought / Charles K. Wilber.