BOOK: Popes and Bankers
As someone who receives free books from Thomas Nelson Publishing just for writing a review, I’m always eager for a new book to arrive in the mail. So when Jack Cashill’s book, Popes and Bankers: A Cultural History of Credit and Debt, from Aristotle to Aristotle, came, I was not disappointed. This easy to read volume is stuffed full of interesting tidbits from the prohibition against lending and borrowing money with interest, usury, to the modern day debacles on Wall Street. The Old Testament pronounced usury as sin and the Christian church outlawed its practiced. Of particular interest is how families such as the Rothchilds developed a legal loophole and instead of charging interest, profited from devising a network of banks to exchange currency from all across Europe. This is a fascinating book, one that, it you enjoys learning how things work, will bring you hours of pleasure.
I was interested in learning more about the history of church and practices of borrowing. What churches/denominations are against it and if there were exceptions to the rule.
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