Seeking Community in a Capitalist Age: A Collective Response to Poverty and Debt, from the Bible to Today
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Coomber, Matthew J.M.
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2018
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Our global communities are divided, in part, by an individualistic economic paradigm that blames the impoverished for their poverty and champions bottom-line profits as a standard upon which good economic practice is judged. A prominent economic ethos in the Bible, however, holds to a different set of values. Despite the diversity of texts on economic ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Testament, an ethos of community responsibility for the wellbeing of the individual can be found in laws, oracles, and stories that are separated by authorship, location, and time. This article considers the value of such an ethos in confronting the abuses and excesses of international capitalism.|Keywords: poverty, safety net, biblical law, economics, capitalism
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Coomber, M. J. M. (2018). Seeking Community in a Capitalist Age: A Collective Response to Poverty and Debt, from the Bible to Today. Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series, 16, 92-108.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1941-8450