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Dethroning Mammon: Making Money Serve Grace: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2017
By Justin Welby
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The first Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book to be written by the Archbishop Justin Welby himself.
In his first full-length book Justin Welby looks at the subject of money and materialism. Designed for study in the weeks of Lent leading up to Easter, Dethroning Mammon reflects on the impact of our own attitudes, and of the pressures that surround us, on how we handle the power of money, called Mammon in this book.
Who will be on the throne of our lives? Who will direct our actions and attitudes? Is it Jesus Christ, who brings truth, hope and freedom? Or is it Mammon, so attractive, so clear, but leading us into paths that tangle, trip and deceive?
Archbishop Justin explores the tensions that arise in a society dominated by Mammon's modern aliases, economics and finance, and by the pressures of our culture to conform to Mammon's expectations. Following the Gospels towards Easter, this book asks the reader what it means to dethrone Mammon in the values and priorities of our civilisation and in our own existence.
In Dethroning Mammon, Archbishop Justin challenges us to use Lent as a time of learning to trust in the abundance and grace of God.
In his first full-length book Justin Welby looks at the subject of money and materialism. Designed for study in the weeks of Lent leading up to Easter, Dethroning Mammon reflects on the impact of our own attitudes, and of the pressures that surround us, on how we handle the power of money, called Mammon in this book.
Who will be on the throne of our lives? Who will direct our actions and attitudes? Is it Jesus Christ, who brings truth, hope and freedom? Or is it Mammon, so attractive, so clear, but leading us into paths that tangle, trip and deceive?
Archbishop Justin explores the tensions that arise in a society dominated by Mammon's modern aliases, economics and finance, and by the pressures of our culture to conform to Mammon's expectations. Following the Gospels towards Easter, this book asks the reader what it means to dethrone Mammon in the values and priorities of our civilisation and in our own existence.
In Dethroning Mammon, Archbishop Justin challenges us to use Lent as a time of learning to trust in the abundance and grace of God.
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Justin Welby
The Most Reverend Justin Welby is the present Archbishop of Canterbury and thus senior Bishop of the Anglican Communion throughout the world. He was formerly Bishop of Durham. He spent a number of years working full-time on reconciliation, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Archbishop, a former group treasurer of the French oil company Elf Aquitaine and a student of history and law, issues a loud call to repentance in this book. Dethroning Mammon urges Christians to turn aside from worshiping a god of wealth and returning to one that calls us to love and care for our fellow creatures and the place where we all live. He characterizes the contemporary Mammon in two aspects which he calls homo economicus whom he nicknames "Cony" and his brother homo financiarius whom he nicknames "Fin" in other words, economics and finance, as the false idols of the 21st century.Noting that it is not money, but the love of money, that causes us problems, and quoting extensively from the last chapters of the Gospel of John he calls attention to Mary, Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus, people who freely and extravagantly gave their wealth without expecting a return from what they gave. They acted out of love not calculating a return on their investment. While addressing his remarks primarily to his flock in the United Kingdom, when he sums up his argument in the final chapter, "What we master brings us joy," he cites an example from America which is worth quoting at length."The 1776 Declaration of Independence by the 13 colonies that would become the United States of America was revolutionary, not merely in throwing off the authority of King George III, but also because it talked of the right of every human being (or at least, at that time, of every white male human being to 'Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.' That breathtaking sentence, which has echoed around the world ever since, promotes the idea of autonomy, of being in charge of ourselves. Yet personal autonomy is an impossibility that conceals the enthroning of Mammon. In personal terms, autonomy assumes its own slavery—slavery to Mammon."Returning to the UK he goes on to apply this principle to tax policy and the language used to describe it."We need to say positively what tax should do for human flourishing, and to say it in a way that enables policy to be decided simply and clearly. We can challenge this language of tax 'liabilities', dethroning Mammon by saying that the ultimate aim of taxation is to provide money to enable the state to ensure the dignity, safety, health, and education of all citizens, which guarantees our common good, and allows us to show solidarity abroad."Then he pointedly asks, "Are you proud to pay tax?" before concluding with a note on individual spending decisions by asking, "How are you using your spending power to enthrone Christ in the economy around you?"
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