ENT 350 The Church, Entrepreneurship and Value Creation
The Church is a spiritual enterprise that teaches and evangelizes the world as the Holy See, but it is also a human organization, with material needs and even its own state as the Vatican. What is the proper relationship between spiritual pursuits and material business practices for individuals as well as for the Church at large? Join Prof. Andreas Widmer for a series of discussions, site visits, and meetings with Vatican officials to learn about how the Church has tried to render to God what is God's and to Caesar what is Caesar's through the centuries. Navigate the challenges of financing an independent state, providing service to the poor, and explore the development of hospitals, guilds, how indulgences developed, and how Vatican City operates today.