Il denaro da invenzione pericolosa a strumento di salvezza

Abstract

The article analyses the conceptualisation of money – and its ambiguity – in a number of texts of Ancient Greece and the first centuries of the Christian era. Several Greek and Christian texts (i.a. Solon, Aristote, Augustine, Jerome, Basile of Caesarea) interpreted money as a dangerous invention and had a critical approach to the use of wealth and to usury. However, the economic conceptualisations and metaphors are showed to be key in the exegeses of many pericopes elaborated upon by the Fathers of the Church, and in the development of Christian theological tools. 

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