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The Gift: Strings Attached

Sam here with Chapter 7* of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. On Monday I took my daughter to Hershey Park for an afternoon of roller coasters...

What Finance Is

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Finance is that human activity whereby we allocate or exchange resources with respect to time. For the most part this article concerns external exchange—that is, borrowing, lending and investing—rather than allocation of resources...

Financial Institutions

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To complete our theological analysis of finance, we need to demonstrate exactly how people can develop financial institutions that bring glory, stewardship, and justice and love from God’s created foundations. By institutions we...

Prices

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Prices in financial markets are expressed as expected rates of return on financial instruments, which in debt instrument are quoted as interest rates.[1] Why exactly would the borrower and saver agree to pay...

Does the Bible Prohibit Charging Interest?

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Another question is whether financial prices—interest in particular—are prohibited by the Bible. For centuries Christians have debated the applicability of the biblical...

Unaffordability of Borrowing by the Poor

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Ideally, market-rate finance is a blessing to both borrowers and lenders. This is similar to all kinds of commerce. Producing and selling...

Exploitation of Borrowers

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Financiers have a duty to lend profitably, but they are not to profit from the vulnerability of borrowers. You shall not lend them [people in difficulty] your money at interest taken in advance...

Making Lending Decisions

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How does our finance theology inform whether to make a loan to a particular customer and at what interest rate? Several of the foundations of biblical finance come to the fore here. First...

Connecting Lending Practices to the Fear of the Lord (Nehemiah 5:1-5:19)

Bible Commentary

Nehemiah’s wall-building project was threatened, not just from the outside, but also from the inside. Certain wealthy...

Israel’s Responsibility for its Predicament (Ezekiel 18)

Bible Commentary

The exiled Jews' question, "What did we do to deserve this?" comes out of the mistaken belief that they were being punished...

The Gift: Strings Attached

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Sam here with Chapter 7* of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. On Monday I took my daughter to Hershey Park for an afternoon of roller coasters...

Another question is whether financial prices—interest in particular—are prohibited by the Bible. For centuries Christians have debated the applicability of the biblical...

Unaffordability of Borrowing by the Poor

Article

Ideally, market-rate finance is a blessing to both borrowers and lenders. This is similar to all kinds of commerce. Producing and selling...

Exploitation of Borrowers

Article

Financiers have a duty to lend profitably, but they are not to profit from the vulnerability of borrowers. You shall not lend them [people in difficulty] your money at interest taken in advance...

Making Lending Decisions

Article

How does our finance theology inform whether to make a loan to a particular customer and at what interest rate? Several of the foundations of biblical finance come to the fore here. First...

Connecting Lending Practices to the Fear of the Lord (Nehemiah 5:1-5:19)

Bible Commentary

Nehemiah’s wall-building project was threatened, not just from the outside, but also from the inside. Certain wealthy...

Israel’s Responsibility for its Predicament (Ezekiel 18)

Bible Commentary

The exiled Jews' question, "What did we do to deserve this?" comes out of the mistaken belief that they were being punished...

Search results for: charging interest

The Gift: Strings Attached

What Finance Is

Financial Institutions

Prices

Does the Bible Prohibit Charging Interest?

Unaffordability of Borrowing by the Poor

Exploitation of Borrowers

Making Lending Decisions

Connecting Lending Practices to the Fear of the Lord (Nehemiah 5:1-5:19)

Israel’s Responsibility for its Predicament (Ezekiel 18)

The Gift: Strings Attached

What Finance Is

Financial Institutions

Prices

Does the Bible Prohibit Charging Interest?

Unaffordability of Borrowing by the Poor

Exploitation of Borrowers

Making Lending Decisions

Connecting Lending Practices to the Fear of the Lord (Nehemiah 5:1-5:19)

Israel’s Responsibility for its Predicament (Ezekiel 18)

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