The Problem of Luxury in the Christian Life
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...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2012
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Jahr: 2012, Band: 32, Heft: 1, Seiten: 3-20 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2012.0002 |