Should We Charge Interest on Loans?

20/09/2022 1h 19min Temporada 5 Episodio 5

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Episode Synopsis

Charging interest on a loan is still a sin. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying.  Marc and Jacob DEMOLISH some of the popular excuses for committing an act of usury. 
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Episode Citations
3:20 John T Noonan "Authority, Usury, and Contraception" 
17:00 Rather than listing all the citations here we link to Robert P. Maloney's 'THE TEACHING OF THE FATHERS ON USURY: AN HISTORICAL STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN THINKING' where he walks through the patristic Tradition on Usury in chronological order. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1582909 
17:57 Benedict XIV Vix Pervenit 
18:18 Lateran V Session 10 May 4, 1515 
36:00 "Laborem 12" 
52:00 John Finnis', Molina's arguments on usury referenced are from:  Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory by John Finnis Treatise on Loans and Usury by Molina 
1:09:00 Olivi Dubium 6