The Peril of Usury in the Christian Tradition

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 65 (2):128-140 (2011)
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Through the sixteenth century, the Christian tradition upheld the biblical denunciation of usury as the oppression of the poor and the neighbor. The church should critically retrieve this understanding as a contribution to the public discourse about the oppressive use of interest and debt in the current worldwide fiscal crises

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