Reform Sürecindeki Avrupa’da Ticaret Yasağından Kurtuluş
Escape From the Commerce Prohibition in the Reformation Process of Europe

Summary/Abstract: The church fathers and the scholastic doctors of the Middle Ages looked with favor upon husbandry and workmanship but regarded trade with distrust because it was an occupation with money which, although not wicked in itself, nevertheless endangered the salvation of the soul. According to the canon of law practices, to take usury that means pay surplus in borrowing or buying is always forbidden to everybody, but to trade is sometimes allowed and sometimes prohibited. The profits come from trade which all of them ill-gotten so the canon laws warns that every purity man must be avoid the occasion of sin in the process of buying and selling. The Holy Bible to curse the usurer who nearly all of them merchants, they are all damnable because buy sin but sell time which belong to God. According to church, the works of God are all good, but merchants who pursuits gain are worship to Mammon who is deity of money, and in reality money is an image of Satan (Ba’al) that he is a wicked spirit.

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