‘Usury is not Usury.’ The Early Dutch Reformed Theological Debate on Interest (and What Can be Learned from It)
Published online on June 16, 2026
Abstract
Studies in Christian Ethics, Ahead of Print.
This article reconstructs early Dutch Reformed theological debates on usury from the late sixteenth century to the 1630s, culminating in Johannes Cloppenburgh'sChristian Instruction on Usury(1637). Challenging the common assumption that Dutch reflection ...
This article reconstructs early Dutch Reformed theological debates on usury from the late sixteenth century to the 1630s, culminating in Johannes Cloppenburgh'sChristian Instruction on Usury(1637). Challenging the common assumption that Dutch reflection ...