During the 1980s, the government of Great Britain, led by Margaret Thatcher, promoted a political and economic ideology known in the demotic as the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture. This set of beliefs and actions included an encouragement of hard work, thrift, self-responsibility, and self-employment, as well as legislating for the support of small firms, privatisation, free markets and a strong - but minimal - central state. Behind the Enterprise Culture lay a religious paradigm, explicitly called upon by its chief creators, including Margaret Thatcher. The thesis builds an ideal-type of the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture, following a Weberian methodology, to form the major object of study. The work aims to discover whether the ideal-type under analysis is theologically coherent, and whether it can justifiably claim to be a continuation of Christian thought in this area. This thesis examines the development of Western European philosophy and theology as it relates to the key aspects of the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture, beginning with the Ancient Greeks and concluding with the Victorian Age of Enterprise. The historical review demonstrates that the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture is generally discontiguous with the tradition of religious thought, and in some instances is essentially in direct contradiction with important aspects of the tradition, such as the significance of the Incarnation. A review of the theological works of the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture and its critics adds to the findings of the historical examination, indicating further flaws and contradictions within Enterprise Theology. Critics of Enterprise Theology are found to be much more consistent with mainstream Christian Theology.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T19:29:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 15 / Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos / Amélia Hartley de Brito Antunes Maciel – a Baronesa de Três Serros – escreveu um total de cento e cinqüenta e uma cartas, no período compreendido entre 1885 e 1918. A maioria delas foi remetida por Amélia após sua viuvez e transferência para o Rio de Janeiro e teve como destinatária a filha mais velha Amélia Aníbal Hartley Maciel, mais conhecida como Sinhá, que permaneceu em Pelotas (RS), morando no solar da família. A análise que empreendemos dessa “escrita de si” – e que apresentamos nesta Dissertação – fornece valiosas informações sobre como Amélia mantinha e estreitava seus vínculos familiares, sobre como administrava seu patrimônio e o orçamento doméstico, sobre seus sentimentos diante da doença, da morte e da velhice, sobre seus posicionamentos políticos, sobre suas leituras e vivência social, bem como sobre suas crenças e espiritualidade. As linhas escritas por Amélia, no entanto, mais do que reconstituir a trajetória de sua vida, revelam as nuances do modo de vida e do pensamento de um segmento social / Amélia Hartley de Brito Antunes Maciel – Baroness of Três Serros – wrote 151 letters between 1885 and 1918. Most of them were sent by Amélia after becoming a widow and being moved to Rio de Janeiro, to her oldest daughter Amélia Aníbal Hartley Maciel, known as Sinhá, who remained in Pelotas (RS) in her family’s manor. Our analysis of these “writings of herself” – which are shown in this work – provides valuable information about how Amélia kept her family links and made them closer, about how she ran her properties and her household budget, about her feelings towards her illness, death and old age, her politic positions, her readings and social life, as well as her beliefs and spirituality. However, more than reconstructing her life, these writings show us the shades of the way-of-life of privileged people in the beginning of the 20th Century focusing on the private and personal aspect, which is of little interest in historiography. In this perspective, we believe that our investigations contributes in a inn

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