About this book
Calvin Elliott's Usury: A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View confronts the moral, legal, and economic roots of interest-taking through grounded readings of Scripture, church history, and political economy. Elliott—writing amid turn-of-the-century financial change—traces usury from Mosaic law and the prophets through the teachings of Jesus, the practices of the early church, and Reformation debates, arguing that charging interest has persistent ethical and social consequences.
Blending theology, historical analysis, and economic critique, Elliott examines parables, Nehemiah’s reforms, Calvin’s correspondence, and later political-economist defenses to show how usury fosters debt dependency, concentrates wealth, erodes character, and undermines equal rights. Chapters explore the “debt habit,” the borrower’s servitude, land-rental counterarguments, and why longstanding prohibitions were neglected only to re-emerge as pressing concerns in modern finance.
Ideal for listeners interested in economics/political economy, Christian ethics, social justice, and the history of economic thought, this audiobook offers a thoughtful, polemical case for financial reform. Listen if you want a historically rooted, ethically driven perspective on debt, inequality, and the moral limits of profit.
