The Problem of Interest for Luther and the Danish Reformers
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The Problem of Interest for Luther and the Danish Reformers. / Lausten, Martin Schwarz.
Market, Ethics and Religion: The Market and its Limitations. ed. / Niels Kærgård. Springer, 2023. p. 237-249 (Ethical Economy. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 62).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Problem of Interest for Luther and the Danish Reformers
AU - Lausten, Martin Schwarz
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - A heated debate about interest took place in both Germany and Denmark in the sixteenth century, but this was nothing new and came as no surprise to Lutheran reformers. The topic had already been the subject of intensively discussion in the Middle Ages and even if interest charges were unlawful the church itself was frequently engaged in lending out at interest. The debate was a complicated mixture of economics and moral theology and the demarcation between the Catholic Middle Ages and the Lutheran Reformation was fluid and blurred. Luther (and the Danish reformers) did not want to be a politician or an economist; he was a theologian and a spiritual adviser also in this debate and both he and the Danish reformers was profoundly religious.
AB - A heated debate about interest took place in both Germany and Denmark in the sixteenth century, but this was nothing new and came as no surprise to Lutheran reformers. The topic had already been the subject of intensively discussion in the Middle Ages and even if interest charges were unlawful the church itself was frequently engaged in lending out at interest. The debate was a complicated mixture of economics and moral theology and the demarcation between the Catholic Middle Ages and the Lutheran Reformation was fluid and blurred. Luther (and the Danish reformers) did not want to be a politician or an economist; he was a theologian and a spiritual adviser also in this debate and both he and the Danish reformers was profoundly religious.
KW - Faculty of Theology
KW - Renteforbud. Luther. Dansk reformation. Peder Palladius. Frans Vormordsen. Niels Hemmingsen. Christian d. 3. Etik. Erhvervsliv.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-08462-1_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-08462-1_17
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-031-08464-5
T3 - Ethical Economy. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy
SP - 237
EP - 249
BT - Market, Ethics and Religion
A2 - Kærgård, Niels
PB - Springer
ER -
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