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Beyond Capitalism: Towards a Relational economy
Michael Schluter, March 2010 5 comments
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Western societies face economic decline and political instability due in significant part to the five moral flaws of Capitalism and their severe social consequences. A radical new economic vision is urgently needed. This paper proposes a way forward through five strategies: embed relational values, strengthen household balance sheets, empower extended families, engage capital providers and entrust welfare to local communities. These changes are mutually reinforcing because they all reform economic life so as to strengthen personal bonds in the local and wider communities. They point towards the Christian vision of a ‘Relational economy’.
Category: Cambridge Papers
Keywords: Finance & the Economy
Is Capitalism Morally Bankrupt? Five moral flaws and their social consequences
Michael Schluter, September 2009 4 comments
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Many Christians accept Capitalism as broadly in line with biblical teaching. Its economic success appears to vindicate attribution of its origins to Christian theology. This confidence in Capitalism as the best available economic system has meant that Christians have failed to recognise that it is one of the main drivers of social and moral breakdown in Western societies. This paper will highlight five failings in the philosophical foundations and institutions of Corporate Capitalism, pointing to their devastating impact on families and communities, and how they bring about the growth of giant corporations and centralised state power. Christians need to search urgently for a new economic order based on biblical revelation. One such alternative will be set out in a future issue of Cambridge Papers.
Category: Cambridge Papers
Keywords: Finance & the Economy
The Bible and Money: Managing one's money in the end times
Dr Paul Mills, May 2009
Price: FREE
An immensely practical eight-week course designed to help develop a biblical understanding of money and how we should use it, covering the following topics:
1. Possessions and money – who does the possessing?
2. Stewardship – for whom, for what, and when?
3. Giving – the real investment
4. Borrowing, lending, and debt – true ‘freedom’?
5. Saving and insurance – what does the future hold?
6. Investments and gambling – where should God’s money go?
7. Tax, pensions, and estate planning – when the end is nigh?
8. Church finances – nine marks of a healthy church budget
Category: Bible Studies
Keywords: Finance & the Economy
Cambridge Papers Open Day Proceedings 2009
Jubilee Centre, May 2009
Price: FREE
Summaries of the plenary by Dr Paul Mills, The Economic Crisis: A Biblical Diagnosis and Foundation, and optional seminars at the Cambridge Papers Open Day held on 4 May 2009.
Titles of the seminars were Transhumanism: Enhancing Humans or a New Creation?, Liberation Theology: an Historian's Perspective, A Christian University?, Anti-Christian Law and Christian Citizenship, The Relational Company, Responding to a Post-Modern World, and Twentieth Century Painting: The Window as Closed?
Category: Reports
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Crime & Justice, Education, Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Science & Technology, Worldviews & Culture
Responding to the global economic crisis
Dr Paul Mills, May 2009
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Cambridge Papers author and IMF economist Dr Paul Mills shares his personal thoughts on how we should respond to the global economic crisis.
Category: Multimedia
Keywords: Finance & the Economy
How the City Shapes Society
Michael Schluter, March 2007
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The City, defined here as a group of London-based interlocking financial and trading institutions, including both UK-based and international companies, is essentially a wholesale market for capital rather than a retail market. How then does the City shape society?
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Finance & the Economy
How to create a relational society: foundations for a new social order
Michael Schluter, March 2007 1 comment
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In an earlier Cambridge Paper (September 2006), a biblical Charter for Humanity was proposed within a relational framework. This second paper seeks to answer the question, How do we move towards relational well-being? The place where the Bible sets out the foundations required to create a society of right relationships in terms of structures, resources and processes is primarily in the law which God gives to Israel when it is first established as a nation. The paper explores how these institutional norms, as deepened and extended by the rest of biblical teaching, provide the basis for social transformation today.
Category: Cambridge Papers
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues
What charter for humanity? Defining the destination of development
Michael Schluter, September 2006 No comments
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The word development describes a journey of economic and social change, but is often implicitly taken to define the destination as well. Economic growth is generally regarded as the purpose as well as the means of this social change. However, the biblical emphasis is on the quality of social, political, and economic relationships, which may be summarised as relational well-being (RWB). National aspirations should not focus primarily on levels or distribution of income, nor on individual freedom and choice. Rather, Christians should re-examine policy and project goals in both high-income and low-income societies from a relational perspective, so as to tackle relational deprivation as well as material poverty.
Category: Cambridge Papers
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Lifestyle Issues
For a Divine Economy, follow the Old Testament
Ross Gittins, June 2006
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Most of us assume the solution to problems with the economy lies in coming up with something new. But a group of Christian thinkers in Cambridge believe the answer lies in getting back to the economic model laid out in the bible. (This article was published on 17 April 2006 by the Sydney Morning Herald. Ross Gittins is the Economics Editor.)
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Finance & the Economy
Should Christians use Islamic financial products?
Michael Schluter, December 2005
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The Islamic Bank of Britain and some western banks now offer a range of new, Sharia-compliant financial products. The bank invests in non-interest assets (such as equities) where risks are at least theoretically shared between lenders and borrowers. In good times, the bank then pays savers a dividend instead of interest.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Finance & the Economy