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Penfold	Friday, 1. May 2009, 16:17
Posts: 811 Group: Members Member #225 Joined: April 1, 2009	OsullivanB Friday, 1. May 2009, 15:26 Hi Penfold, Of course I accept what you say. But my enquiry was deliberately put in a broad form "the changing status of usury". I think we might agree that the teaching has at the very least developed. But I suspect that we may both feel that there are things more relevant to salvation than this arcane issue, and I would be happy to let it drop. It is a subject which interests me quite a lot when it comes to mind, but not one which preoccupies me. I haven't been able to find a book which deals with the development of the Church's approach. Perhaps that would be a project for my retirement. Though that may not be a good idea. I have no wish to give ammunition to the detractors of this world. OsB I am sorry to have appeared negative. You are right to be concerned about usury in this age of banking collapse and peoples savings being wiped out because of greedy bankers. What I meant to say was that the church has never formally condemned Usury but it has always been understood from the scriptures that we should act with charity to the poor and with justice in our business dealings with others. I was thinking of using the text of the unjust servant in the LD this week perhaps next week. There are many better scholars than I in this forum and I welcome the debates and the chance to learn. I have been very busy reading back through the council documents, even the pre 1958 ones: wink: and have not had so much academic stimulus for years, it is very refreshing. I think that it is a shame that the church has always just fallen short of a universal ban on charging interest on loans. As good Christians, however, I think you are absolutely right to point out that it is a practice which we should avoid, not because it is against a specific law but because it is in breach of the spirit of Christ's Teaching. And as Mrs P and KatyA have already discovered I am more than happy if people with a legitmate gripe pul me up and set me straight, Cyberhand bags are not too painful, Edited by Penfold, Friday, 1. May 2009, 16:27.


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