By Dylan Pahman and Alexander William Salter When discerning how to approach wealth and commerce, American Orthodox Christians have their work cut out for them. Should we embrace the “Protestant work ethic” of righteous enterprise? Or does the Apostolic witness shun “filthy lucre,” instead favoring a communitarian path? We need more than simplistic answers. The…
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by David Bentley Hart | ελληνικά This essay originally appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review and has been republished here with permission of the author. It was in 1983 that I heard the distinguished Greek Orthodox historian Aristeides Papadakis casually remark in a lecture at the University of Maryland that the earliest Christians were…
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