The Moral Witness of the Church on the Investment of Money and the Use of Wealth

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Excerpt from The Moral Witness of the Church on the Investment of Money and the Use of Wealth: An Open Letter Addressed to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, President of the Convocation of the Province of CanterburyI. The point at which the in¿uence of the Church can best be brought to bear.The morality of the employment of money is a subject on which a great deal of thought has been expended by Christian men in all ages, circum stances have changed very much since the results of that thought were most precisely formulated, but theprinciples which underlay the Christian legislation of the Middle Ages which was re-enacted in the seventeenth century, are not, as is sometimes supposed, entirely irrelevant to the circumstances of the present day. If we take for granted that the distinctions, which were drawn under simpler conditions of busi ness life by ecclesiastical lawyers, are merely of anti quarian interest, we are unconsciously discarding help, which lies ready to hand, for disentangling the more complex problems of modern economic life, and for obtaining a clearer view as to Christian conduct in business relations in the present day. When we consider the purpose for which medieval maxims of Christian duty were formulated and the extent to which circumstances have changed, we cannot only see why the old morality can no longer be authori tatively enforced, but also learn in what way it should be taken into account.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.