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COLUMN: Mammon's the man
News Wire article from: University Wire Josh Fredman March 29, 2001 700+ words ...2001 (The Daily) (U-WIRE) SEATTLE -- Mammon is the Lord of Avarice. Originally, the term "mammon" was a Syrian word that stood for riches or wealth. Later on, the Bible demonized mammon into Mammon, the evil personification of... |
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Of God and modern mammon.(Features)(Ideas)(Interview /Janet Somerville)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 4, 2000 700+ words ...passionate on the need to resist "the reign of mammon," as she calls it. At a recent conference...interview at her office in Toronto. "Is mammon new - or just worse than it used to be?" she was asked. "Mammon is very, very old. Mammon was old when... |
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Mammon comes out ahead at Christmas
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL) Bill Mego December 10, 2004 700+ words ...to do what St. Matthew said was impossible, serve both the Lord and Mammon, the demon of worldly riches. Mammon always wins. That's because, in the short run, Mammon has way cooler stuff -- video cell phones, personal music players that... |
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Hong Kong offers oblations to Mammon--blood sacrifices, but money preferred
Magazine article from: The Spectator Fildes, Christopher January 23, 1999 700+ words Hong Kong The great Temple of Mammon is encased in bamboo scaffolding. Bits of...you know. Hong Kong's a free market.' Mammon must have smiled on him. Whistling pontiffs SOME of Mammon's most eminent servants have been called... |
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For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in...
Magazine article from: The Historian Myller, Rolf June 22, 1998 700+ words For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters...preeminent (2). This coalition of "God and Mammon" was natural, the author contends...SenGupta finds that the followers of God and Mammon did not always see eye to eye. While... |
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Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Criticism Hanson, Elizabeth June 22, 2003 700+ words Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in...320. $40.00 cloth. Blair Hoxby's Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in...appropriations of explicitly economic discourse. Mammon's Music is divided into four sections... |
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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to bow down in the house of Mammon
Magazine article from: The Spectator Fildes, Christopher September 27, 1997 700+ words ...Christopher,' he said, `what a temple of Mammon this is!' I hope that when in centuries...evidence to work that out. This week Mammon's cult is in full swing and myriads...is ecumenical. They are happy to see Mammon cultivated in Hong Kong, they say, and... |
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Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep...
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History RANKIN, DAVID C. November 1, 2000 700+ words Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First...57233-023-6.) Thomas N. Ingersoll's Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans is an ambitious...a lot like Baltimore, if not Buffalo. Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans is nevertheless... |
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Serving mammon--bad for being church.
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times Somerville, Janet December 19, 2004 700+ words ...your line about you cannot serve God and Mammon, and I know that was very important to...this is the real world: we're serving Mammon." We have to, says the West. The bottom...hugely destructive symptom of our choice of Mammon over God is the dominating role in our... |
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The radical Jesus: you cannot serve God and Mammon.
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin Oakman, Douglas E. September 22, 2004 700+ words ...of Jesus of Nazareth was a critique of Mammon, carried on under the proclamation of...still today leave Christians in an Age of Mammon with an uneasy conscience...was a politically charged critique of Mammon, carried on under the proclamation of... |
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Mammon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Mammon wealth regarded as an evil influence or false object of worship and devotion (sometimes as the mammon of unrighteousness , from Luke 16:19). It was...sense by Milton. See also you cannot serve God and Mammon . |
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mammon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition mammon , Aramaic term, meaning worldly riches, retained in the New Testament Greek. "Ye cannot serve God and mammon" is one of the most noted biblical strictures. |
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Cave of Mammon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Cave of Mammon, see Mammon, the Cave of . |
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Mammon, Sir Epicure
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Mammon, Sir Epicure, in Jonson's The Alchemist , a voluptuous, gourmandizing knight, one of Jonson's greatest characters. |
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Mammon, the Cave of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Mammon, the Cave of, described in Spenser's Faerie Queene ( ii . vii), is the treasure-house of the god of wealth, visited by Sir Guyon. |
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