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Title

Finance Overview

Authors

Theology of Work Project
Leonard D. Van Drunen

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-6-2014

Keywords

Workplaces, Finance

Abstract

1. What Finance Is
2. God’s Purposes for Finance
   • Finance Helps Reveal the Glory of God’s Creation
   • Finance Helps Us Fulfill the Creation Mandate to Be Good Stewards
   • Finance Can Be a Means of Justice and Love
3. The Foundations of Finance are Created by God
   • We are Timebound
   • We are Social
   • We are Heterogeneous
   • We Act as Agents
   • We Make Promises
   • We Are Not Omniscient
   • We Create Resources for a Future that We Do Not Know
   • We Are Risk Takers
   • Conclusion to the Foundations of Finance are Created by God
4. Financial Institutions
   • Currency
   • Intermediaries
     • Can we really love someone through intermediaries?
   • Instruments
   • Prices
     • Can a market exchange really be love?
     • Does the Bible prohibit charging interest?
   • Conclusion to Financial Institutions
5. Finance and the Fall
   • Unaffordability of borrowing by the poor
   • Exploitation of borrowers
   • Unproductive use of proceeds
   • Is there still scope for finance to fulfill God’s purposes?
6. Redeemed Finance
   • Finance Professionals
     • Working in a Bank
     • Making Lending Decisions
     • Working at a Hedge Fund
   • Borrowers
     • The Right Amount of Debt
     • Offering Collateral to Get a Loan
     • Bankruptcy, debt forgiveness and loan modification
   • Savers and Lenders
7. Conclusions

Comments

Contributed to Digital Commons @ SPU with permission from the Theology of Work Project.

Recommended Citation

Theology of Work Project and Van Drunen, Leonard D., "Finance Overview" (2014). Theology of Work Project. 41.
https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/tow_project/41

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