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“Capitalism, Social Justice, and Desire”

By / 4 October 2008

I just heard a great presentation on “Capitalism, Social Justice, and Desire” – covering off a Biblical view on these issues.  The guy who gives it is called Paul Williams. There are some other useful resources on the page that may also be of interest.

Here’s the link:  http://www2.regent-college.edu/marketplace/audio.html

Lots of interesting stuff in there. Part of the discussion I found most interesting was about land ownership and accumulation and jubilee, especially in light of some debates I’ve had with a Christian friend who’s heavily into residential property investment.

Isaiah 5:8 “Woe to you who add house to house, and join field to field till there’s no space left and you live on your own in the land”

Micah 2.2 “Woe on those who covet fields and seize them, houses and take them, they defraud man of his home, a fellow human being of his inheritance”

-Paul Williams states that “These are the kinds of things that are given as reasons why the people of God are going to be exiled from the land and kicked out of it, because they have failed to live in a way that keeps relationships rightly in these respects.”

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