"This economy kills." In his new draft of a theological economic ethics, Franz Segbers takes this sentence of the Pope seriously. He consistently chooses social human rights - the decisive achievement of civilization of the 20th century and a lesson from the world economic crisis before the Second World War - as a systematic starting point. However, modern human rights are inconceivable without their biblical roots! Segbers therefore develops an "ethics of life" that argues biblically and theologically and at the same time offers a common basis for discussion with non-believers. An indispensable theoretical basis for all socially and ecologically committed people.