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- A literal reading of Holy Scripture often leaves readers with a negative attitude toward financial relationships. However, in our view, Scripture rather warns of a dangerous zone where sin can arise.
- An interesting hypothesis is the role of Roman law in the Byzantine era, when it was used to define the boundaries of secular piety, as evidenced by the Novellas of the sainted Emperor Justinian.
- Christian teaching places greater emphasis on the human dimension than on social structure or formal relationships between people. This focus of Christian teaching can be a starting point for developing rules for the validation of financial transactions: the form of the transaction is secondary, while its consequences for the soul are primary.
- The optimal mechanism for ensuring the development of market instruments that enable financial products to be executed in accordance with Christian principles would be the creation of funds containing securities that meet the identified factors, as well as the development of a verification system that could function at the level of Bishops' Councils of Local Churches and, as it develops, at the diocesan level.
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