RT Article
T1 The Problem of Luxury in the Christian Life
JF Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
VO 32
IS 1
SP 3
OP 20
A1 Cloutier, David
LA English
PB Philosophy Documentation Center
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1823808662
AB DESPITE ITS PROMINENCE IN BOTH BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE, the moral category of luxury has been lost in contemporary Christian ethics. To address the spending of one's money as a moral act, I propose recovering the category. A survey of the history of the term illustrates its particular place in a set of economic virtues and vices, and suggests that its
DO 10.1353/sce.2012.0002