Christian History Magazine—Issue 14: Money in Christian History: Part I
Overview
Is hoarding “idolatry” as Dietrich Bonhoeffer suggests? Are Christians always required to give when they are able? The careful dance between economics and true faith commenced during the early days of Israel, and today we still field a plethora of questions and offer few answers. Christian History & Biography offers this issue as an historical survey of the Church’s theology of money and its usage on individual and institutional levels.
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Top Highlights
“Somewhere along the line, we find ourselves buying the lie that we need money more than we need God. That is idolatry.” (source)
“Wesley urged believers to practice business to the glory of God: ‘Make as much as you can, save as much as you can, and give as much as you can.’” (source)
“Luther saw three conversions necessary for the believer: conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse” (source)
“In the Post-Reformation era capitalism secularized Calvinistic ethics. Protestantism became synonymous with middle-class respectability, and Christian virtues with bourgeois values. The Post-Reformation era abandoned the social revolutionary thought of the Reformers. Rather than seek the structural solutions to poverty that characterized the Reformation, Protestantism returned to the early church model of personal charity. Protestant mission efforts to ameliorate the economic victims of industrialization generally did not aim at structural change in society.” (source)
“The greater the possessions, the heavier the responsibility for using them for the glory of God and increasing them by restless effort.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 14: Money in Christian History: Part I
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christian History Institute
- Print Publication Date: 1987
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Money › History; Wealth › Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines
- Resource ID: LLS:12.30.14
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:38:58Z