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Divine Currency

The Theological Power of Money in the West

  • Paperback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm

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For those curious about money's spiritual impact.

Divine Currency reveals money's power in society.

You’ll understand money's role in your faith journey.

Discover how early economic ideas shaped Christian thought and society in Devin Singh's enlightening book, Divine Currency.

This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers borrowed ancient notions of money and economic exchange from the Roman Empire as a basis for their new theological arguments. Monetary metaphors and images, including the minting of coins and debt slavery, provided frameworks for theologians to explain what happens in salvation. God became an economic administrator, for instance, and Christ functioned as a currency to purchase humanity's freedom. Such ideas, in turn, provided models for pastors and Christian emperors as they oversaw both resources and people, which led to new economic conceptions of state administration of populations and conferred a godly aura on the use of money. Divine Currency argues that this longstanding association of money with divine activity has contributed over the centuries to an ever increasing significance of money, justifying various forms of politics that manage citizens along the way. Devin Singh's account sheds unexpected light on why we live in a world where nothing seems immune from the price mechanism.
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  • Title

    Divine Currency

  • Author

    Devin Singh

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    April 2018

  • Weight

    454g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781503605664

  • ISBN-10

    1503605663

  • Eden Code

    4537072

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