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Bluffing

Bluffing

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One of the most common violations of truthtelling in the work world is bluffing or what some call, “mutual deceits.”[1] Bluffing may be legitimate when all the parties understand that the truth is...

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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...

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Finance Helps Us Fulfill the Creation Mandate to Be Good Stewards

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Stewardship is the fulfillment of God’s mandate to fill the earth, subdue (or govern) it, work it, and care for it (Genesis...

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Finance Can Be a Means of Justice and Love

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Finance makes certain activities of justice and love possible. We are using Wolterstorff’s conception of justice wherein persons are to be treated...

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We Make Promises

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God is a God of promises and covenants. The biblical narrative is a story of God’s promises kept. Humans are created in his image, and thus we have biblical accounts of humans making...

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We Are Not Omniscient

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Humanity does not know everything, and individually each of us knows only a tiny fraction of what can be known. God created each of us with our own unique mind which takes in...

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Intermediaries

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Intermediaries are institutions that “remanufacture” lenders’ resources into a form that is useful to borrowers. A simple example is when a bank intermediates between several depositors and one business loan borrower. Intermediaries include...

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Can We Really Love Someone Through Intermediaries?

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If finance is a means of care and love, doing finance through intermediaries raises a question. Can we love someone we do...

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Instruments

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Financial instruments are promises between two or more parties with differing resource needs which are tailored to allow both parties to be prudent risk takers when the future is unknown. As argued above...

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Can a Market Exchange Really Be Love?

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The question of prices raised two questions about finance as a form of love. First, can love be expressed in a market...

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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...

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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...

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Unproductive Use of Proceeds

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God’s intent is that finance be a form of sharing, over time, among borrowers and lenders. There is only something to share if the loan makes increased productivity possible. So borrowers and lenders...

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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...

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The Right Amount of Debt

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Can biblical principles help us determine how much to borrow or when to borrow? Several of the biblical foundations of finance can help. First, we inhabit God’s time-bound world with social cycles and...

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Offering Collateral to Get a Loan

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We explore some of the biblical passages about collateral in the section, “Bankruptcy, debt forgiveness and loan modification”. The mainstream Christian view is that using your house as collateral for a loan is...

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Bankruptcy, Debt Forgiveness, and Loan Modification

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The created foundations of finance include our creation as social beings who take risk and do not know what the future holds...

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Savers and Lenders

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Those who provide resources—lenders and savers—have a responsibility to invest their resources for the common, and not only for their own, gain. This perspective is sometimes called “socially responsible investing.” We will explore...

Bluffing

Bluffing

Article

One of the most common violations of truthtelling in the work world is bluffing or what some call, “mutual deceits.”[1] Bluffing may be legitimate when all the parties understand that the truth is...

620px cacao moneda

What Finance Is

Article

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...

Accounting 57284 620

Finance Helps Us Fulfill the Creation Mandate to Be Good Stewards

Article

Stewardship is the fulfillment of God’s mandate to fill the earth, subdue (or govern) it, work it, and care for it (Genesis...

A business in south sudan benefiting from microfinance 6189731244

Finance Can Be a Means of Justice and Love

Article

Finance makes certain activities of justice and love possible. We are using Wolterstorff’s conception of justice wherein persons are to be treated...

Business deal handshake 2

We Make Promises

Article

God is a God of promises and covenants. The biblical narrative is a story of God’s promises kept. Humans are created in his image, and thus we have biblical accounts of humans making...

San francisco 210230 620

We Are Not Omniscient

Article

Humanity does not know everything, and individually each of us knows only a tiny fraction of what can be known. God created each of us with our own unique mind which takes in...

Building 244265 620

Intermediaries

Article

Intermediaries are institutions that “remanufacture” lenders’ resources into a form that is useful to borrowers. A simple example is when a bank intermediates between several depositors and one business loan borrower. Intermediaries include...

620px yuanta bank hq in yuanta financial tower

Can We Really Love Someone Through Intermediaries?

Article

If finance is a means of care and love, doing finance through intermediaries raises a question. Can we love someone we do...

Business 163870 620

Instruments

Article

Financial instruments are promises between two or more parties with differing resource needs which are tailored to allow both parties to be prudent risk takers when the future is unknown. As argued above...

Apple 256261 620

Can a Market Exchange Really Be Love?

Article

The question of prices raised two questions about finance as a form of love. First, can love be expressed in a market...

Homeless 212591 620

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...

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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...

620px sign of the times foreclosure

Unproductive Use of Proceeds

Article

God’s intent is that finance be a form of sharing, over time, among borrowers and lenders. There is only something to share if the loan makes increased productivity possible. So borrowers and lenders...

Tax office 233345 620

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...

Usmc 100911 m 620 001 2

The Right Amount of Debt

Article

Can biblical principles help us determine how much to borrow or when to borrow? Several of the biblical foundations of finance can help. First, we inhabit God’s time-bound world with social cycles and...

Couple 260899 620

Offering Collateral to Get a Loan

Article

We explore some of the biblical passages about collateral in the section, “Bankruptcy, debt forgiveness and loan modification”. The mainstream Christian view is that using your house as collateral for a loan is...

Img 0896 copy

Bankruptcy, Debt Forgiveness, and Loan Modification

Article

The created foundations of finance include our creation as social beings who take risk and do not know what the future holds...

620 piggy bank2 copy

Savers and Lenders

Article

Those who provide resources—lenders and savers—have a responsibility to invest their resources for the common, and not only for their own, gain. This perspective is sometimes called “socially responsible investing.” We will explore...