Does Idolatry Harm Your Neighbor? A Veblenian Approach to the Ethics of the Prophets
Biblical prophetic writings display an unexplained interweaving of anti-idolatry themes with social justice themes. This article offers a link between these ethical foci by appealing to Thorstein Veblen's philosophical economics. Veblen and his more recent followers such as Fred Hirsch argue th...
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2024
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-227 |
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Thorstein Veblen
B Biblical prophets B positional goods B Liturgy B Hermeneutics B biblical ethics B Idolatry |
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