Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-176)

Contents: American and middle class -- Contractual connections and our ec onomic logic -- Friendship -- God's gift of friendship -- Love and justic e -- God and neighbor -- Family first -- Marriage -- Sex and singleness - - Our place -- The home and the hospitality of the market -- Sharing, eat ing, and housekeeping -- Country and nation -- Hope for the world -- The meaning of things -- Debts and gifts -- Wants and needs -- Work and culti vation -- Our relation to things -- We believe -- One God, the Father, th e Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth -- For God, creation out of nothing , and for us, lots of things -- One Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of G od -- The Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life -- One Holy Catholic a nd Apostolic Church -- The forgiveness of sin -- Resurrection and the lif e of the world to come