#337 Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic w/ Joseph Slaughter
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Few American Christians in the 21st Century question the compatibility of their faith with a capitalist economic system. Two hundred years ago, however, the social and economic changes that came with the rise of a capitalism posed fundamental challenges to Christian practices and beliefs. In this episode, Joseph Slaughter joins us to discuss his book Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic and how Christian responses to the rise of capitalism in the 19th Century laid the foundation for how we understand our modern economy.
Dr. Joseph P. Slaughter is Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan College.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the Road to Now. |
| 0:09.0 | Friends, I am in Nashville recording this late the night before it airs. |
| 0:13.5 | Just got back from Washington, D.C., where I had a blast. |
| 0:18.0 | Bob and I recorded The Road to Now Live at the Hamilton Live in D.C. |
| 0:21.6 | What a good time we had. |
| 0:23.1 | Thank you to everyone who came out of that show. |
| 0:25.4 | Had such a great weekend. |
| 0:27.1 | Bob and I got to hang out again on Saturday before the show with Avert Brothers played at Wolftrap. |
| 0:32.3 | I can't wait to share that episode with you. |
| 0:34.3 | That audio will be up next week. |
| 0:36.8 | That'll be a week from the airing of this show, |
| 0:39.1 | and that will be June 9th. Unless you are one of our supporters on Patreon, if you're there with us, |
| 0:45.8 | the video, actually the full video of the show, is now available on our Patreon page, |
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| 0:55.6 | You can not only hear it, you can watch the live and unedited version. |
| 0:59.4 | For the rest of you guys, it will be up on our feed. |
| 1:02.5 | An edited down version will be up on our feed next Monday. |
| 1:06.4 | For today, though, no disappointment, we have a great episode. |
| 1:10.4 | Our guest is Joseph P. Slaughter. |
| 1:12.4 | He is assistant professor of history at Wesleyan College and author of a fantastic book called |
| 1:18.0 | Faith in Markets, Christian Capitalism in the early American Republic. This is such a great book, |
| 1:23.6 | and it was amazing because, you know, Bob's interest in Christianity and American |
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