By Nimi Wariboko PhD
ISBN-10: 0739127233
ISBN-13: 9780739127230
ISBN-10: 073913034X
ISBN-13: 9780739130346
Contending that empire is alive and good within the world's financial platforms, God and cash explores the theological-ethical implications of cash as a social relation with others and to God. Wariboko argues that monetary globalization calls for a denationalized unmarried worldwide foreign money to institute a brand new constitution of rule in our rising worldwide civilization and its universal sturdy.
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38 I am not claiming that the trinitarian model is the only viable way to re-imagine today’s global monetary system. 39 What is, indeed, the motivation for turning to an ethical model in trying to understand the monetary system? I will soon show that various models are often deployed and used by economists themselves and that now I am meeting them with another kind of model for consideration, namely one informed by trinitarian thinking. 28 Chapter 1 The use of models is widespread in the social sciences, especially in economics.
39 What is, indeed, the motivation for turning to an ethical model in trying to understand the monetary system? I will soon show that various models are often deployed and used by economists themselves and that now I am meeting them with another kind of model for consideration, namely one informed by trinitarian thinking. 28 Chapter 1 The use of models is widespread in the social sciences, especially in economics. As the German economist and philosopher, Julian Reiss puts it: Social scientists pursue a wide variety of different ends with their modelbuilding practices.
What there is now is dependent upon what we believe there will be: our eschatology determines our mode of being, whether one adopts the Enlightenment eschatology of perpetual progress that is essential to economic growth, the American eschatology of creating the kingdom of God on earth by force, the Augustinian eschatology of human imperfection supplemented by divine grace, or the environmentalist eschatology of imminent apocalypse. 46 Let us deepen our understanding of this connection between the eschatology of money and biblical eschatology.
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