Posts Tagged ‘John Calvin’

Chasing the money-changers from the temple

11th October, 2008

The sin of usury, diluted by Eck and the Fuggers banking family in the 1500s, ceased to be condemned as a sin after John Calvin (pictured) gave a license to the charging of interest. Usury as a sin should be brought back now, I argue in the columns of the Guardian today.

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