On the dangers of greed and excess

Karl Koop is professor of history and theology at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is also currently serving as director of the Graduate School of Theology and Ministry at CMU. This essay is adapted from “Dangers of Superabundance: Pieter Pietersz, Mennonites, and Greed during the Dutch Golden Age,†Journal of Mennonite Studies 27 (2009): 61–73; it is used by permission of the publisher.