Sentences with phrase «on usury»

And if the Church's teaching on usury changed with changing circumstances; could not we expect its other teachings to undergo a similar change?

The financier raised fresh capital for his bank by exploiting savings accounts, which were first introduced in Augsburg and paid 5 % a year, thus contravening the Catholic church's ban on usury.

But not the typical objections that say, «Church teaching changed on usury, therefore it will change on some other issue I don't like.»

In outlining the Greek praise of poverty, Desmond concentrates on associated fifth - century themes: the injustice often lurking behind wealth, its connection with hubris, a negative estimation of businessmen, the traditional attack on usury.

He refers to the various exceptions to the prohibition on usury that theologians and Church authorities allowed, but these exceptions are cited in an attempt to discredit the teaching, not in an attempt to indicate what was actually being taught.

Critics of our government and economic system may use the Church's past teaching on usury as an attempt to add weight to their arguments, but a much better addition would be the contributions of the Church's social encyclicals of the last century.

The Church's doctrine on usury is, like the practice it condemns, largely unfruitful.

A change in the nature of financial transactions is nota change in the teaching of the Church on usury.

They're the most expensive loans you'll ever come across, with stratospheric rates that can border on usury.

Alessandro spoke on usury law in banking contracts and credit protection at a conference organised by the

The pope was sympathetic and the ban on usury was conveniently rewritten in 1515, when the process was redefined as «a profit that is acquired without labour, cost or risk».

While maintaining that the Church has not contradicted its teaching on usury, I do not think we can say the banking system itself is intrinsically sinful or evil, although it may be misused by men driven solely by materialism and profit.

So when Zmirak purports to show that the Church has done «a 180 - degree reversal» on usury, the Church in fact did the opposite: She faithfully applied the principle despite changing circumstances.

Bennett agreed in part, saying, «Traditionally, much thought has focused on the possession and use of property, on usury, and on a just wage or price, but the industrial revolution got ahead of the churches.

2006 issue that the Church has developed, but not changed its teaching on usury.

Legitimate development may even appear to some to be a reversal, as occurred in the Church's teaching on usury, but it is not really such.

Not the church's teaching on usury.

Is this a change in the Church's teaching on usury?

Did the Church err or change in its teaching on usury?

Calvin, looking at the context of the Old Testament law, decided that the point of the ban on usury was that we should treat poor people with generosity.