Usury, Debt, and the Ethics of Mutuality: Toward a Theological Reordering of Economic Life
Published online on May 09, 2026
Abstract
Studies in Christian Ethics, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the ambivalence of debt as a simultaneously moral and economic category. It argues that debt traverses two axes: existential and economic indebtedness, and debt as either mutuality or domination. Drawing on biblical prohibitions of ...
This article examines the ambivalence of debt as a simultaneously moral and economic category. It argues that debt traverses two axes: existential and economic indebtedness, and debt as either mutuality or domination. Drawing on biblical prohibitions of ...