Markets and Morality
Part 10 in a series on Markets & Morality
What is “flourishing” and how do we achieve it?
Christians can agree that we are called to bring about flourishing. As Jay Richards recently wrote, the Bible calls Christians to work for the good of the world:
Everything from [...]
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Part 8 in a series on Markets & Morality
…make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will [...]
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Part 8 in a series on Markets & Morality
Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager [...]
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Part 7 in a series on Markets & Morality
Culture, then, may be either godless or godly, depending on the spirit which animates it.
- Henry R.Van Til
After looking more closely at the idea of redemption in my MORE →
I saw a great bumper sticker on my way to work last week. It said:
Liberals confuse the state with charity. Conservatives confuse the state with security.
There is some truth to both of these statements. Regardless of our political positions, we are always tempted to place our hope in something other [...]
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Part 14 in a series on Biblical Foundations of Economic Principles
Every individual… neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it… he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be [...]
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Part 4 in a series on Markets & Morality
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary, it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no [...]
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Part in a series on Markets & Morality
We are in the middle of a series regarding the relationship between markets and morality. Yesterday, Hugh did a great job of outlining the aspects of free-market systems as understood by the father of modern economics, Adam Smith.
It seems [...]
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