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This book reveals how economic ideas structured early Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such sway in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers borrowed ancient notions of money and economic exchange from the Roman Empire as a basis for their new theological arguments. Monetary metaphores and images, including the minting of coins and debt slavery, provided frameworks for theologians to explain what happens in salvation. God became an economic administrator, for instance, and Christ…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2018Stanford University Press · 296 pages · 9781503604827
- Other · English · 2018Stanford University Press · 296 pages · 9781503605664
Money, religious aspectsEconomics, religious aspectsMoneyChristianityHistory of doctrinesEconomicsPolitical theologyReligious aspects