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Article: Hard times: lessons of the economic downturn.(Viewpoint essay)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- July 28, 2009
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How should Christians understand--and what should they learn from--the worst economic downturn since the Depression? Does the crisis raise fundamental moral or theological questions about our economic system? Four scholars offer their reflections.
What's to be learned from the economic crisis? Perhaps not much, since the crisis is far from over. Nevertheless, it is an occasion to reacquaint ourselves with certain lessons that ought to have been learned decades ago. Some of these are eminently practical--a return to basic principles of prudent stewardship at a time when politics, ideology and new technological capabilities have conspired to make each of us, ...