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After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place.
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― The Nature and Mission of Theology: Approaches to Understanding Its Role in the Light of Present Controversy
― The Nature and Mission of Theology: Approaches to Understanding Its Role in the Light of Present Controversy
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[Aristotle] shows how currency serves as a measure...[I]f men always needed immediately the goods they have among themselves, they would have no need of any exchange except of thing for thing, e.g., wine for grain. But sometimes one man (who has a surplus of wine at present) does not need the grain that another man has (who is in need of wine), but perhaps later he will need the grain or some other product. In this way then for the necessity of future exchange, money or currency is, as it were,
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