What do the Orthodox think of wealth?

[Wakeup]

What is the position of the Orthodox Church regarding wealth? To whom does property/wealth properly belong? What is its main purpose? What are the particular responsibilities, if any, of the wealthy? How is wealth to be used? What attitude should the wealthy bear toward the poor and towards the treatment of the poor?

 

[Zardoz]

Shouldn't this be in a Christian DIR? I can move it for ya...

 

[asketikos]

Good question. I think they follow the similar Christian ethos, or should, that wealth is not an ideal, that the poor should be helped. Orthodoxy deals a lot with renunciation of the world, and wealth is seen as part of the world that needs to be renounced.

 

[Biblestudent_007]

What is the position of the Orthodox Church regarding wealth? To whom does property/wealth properly belong? What is its main purpose? What are the particular responsibilities, if any, of the wealthy? How is wealth to be used? What attitude should the wealthy bear toward the poor and towards the treatment of the poor?

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