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Mammon
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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Mammon (personification of) riches. XVI. Earlier
Mammona as a proper name for ‘the devil of covetousness’ — late L.
mam(m)ōna,
mam(m)on — N.T. Gr.
mam(m)ōnás (Matt. 6: 24, Luke 16: 9–13) — Aram.
māmónā,
māmôn riches, gain.
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Of God and modern mammon.(Features)(Ideas)(Interview /Janet Somerville)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 5/4/2000; 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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For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/1998; ; 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; 6/22/2003; ; 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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Serving mammon--bad for being church.
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times; 12/19/2004; ; 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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Islam & Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Kuran, Timur. Islam & Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism. Princeton and Oxford...and Culture at the University of Southern California. Islam and Mammon is not so much a systematic discussion of Islamic economics as a...
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God and mammon.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 12/11/2002; 530 words
; ...produce salvation, although which is more successful is an open question. Corporations may even say that they serve both God and Mammon, for in providing employment, they make people less susceptible to temptation. It's true that wealth tends to make a lot...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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God versus Mammon; interview From advice on tax returns to guiding souls into everlasting life, Charters meets a woman following two callings.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 10/18/2008; 700+ words
; ...is training to be an Anglican priest while running her own accountancy practice. At first, you wonder if there is a risk of Mammon and devotion to God brushing shoulders uneasily in this Church of the Holy Spirit in Dovecot, Liverpool. But it seems not...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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God meets Mammon; Employing gangsters.(James Holub, a Jesuit, turns Milwaukee gangsters into programmers)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 10/20/2001; 700+ words
; ...accepted are paid the market rate, ranging from $40,000 to $50,000 a year. Seamlessly, Brother Holub combines God and Mammon. One moment, he declares that prayer is the glue that holds together his "community" of web designers. The next he argues...
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The Dollar Decade: Mammon and the Machine in 1920s America.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; The Dollar Decade: Mammon and the Machine in 1920s America. By Gary Dean Best. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. xix, 157. $64.95...
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Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001881 Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860. By Stewart Davenport. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008...
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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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Mammon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Mammon (personification of) riches. XVI. Earlier Mammona as a proper name for ‘the devil of covetousness’...
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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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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, 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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