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Moral Concerns and Economic Strength
The Investment Philosophy of Organized Religion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2018
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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the late, justice and mercy and faith " - Jesus (Gospel of Matthew)
"We cannot keep our moral convictions in one pocket and our thoughts and action about business and politics and social order and justice in another pocket quite apart."
-Bishop Arthur Lichtcnberger
Past Presiding Bishop
Episcopal Church, U.S.A.
Should churches, to the extent that they have economic muscle, use it to attack specific social evils and to support specific ethical ideals? The deepening involvement of religions bodies in social problems has brought them face to face with an old quandry in a new guise.’ Are there really two realms, God's and Mammon's, or is there only one a kingdom of heaven on earth to be established at least in part by judicious combinations of moral right and economic might?
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