Colson On Capitalism's Christian Origin

Capitalism also came into being in the West because the Church recognized civil society must enjoy a rightful independence from its control. Theocracies like those Islam produces or unified political-ethical theories like Confucianism in China always produce command economies by their nature. Both Eastern fatalism and Islamic theocracy under a central spiritual leader kept the East and the Islamic Middle East from creating truly dynamic economic systems.

—Chuck Colson, The Faith (Zondervan, 2008), p. 214.