GM:  It is true that Social Credit was never proposed or discussed by the Fathers of the Church, the Doctors of the Church, or even the great Reformation theologians. It may be one way of improving the distribution/sharing of wealth, but not the only way. According to Acts of the Apostles, the earliest Christian community held all goods in common.

Me:  Community ownership of resources may be workable for a period of time and be a temporary local solution to scarcity as well, but they aren’t sustainable against entrenched wealth and power, and most importantly they are not systemic solutions like Social Credit.

GM:  Steve, two points:

As one who speaks often about grace, you should know that Grace is not systemic, but personal, a gift of God.

As far as how sustainable community ownership may be, Mount Athos has been sustaining itself since at least the year 800 A.D.

Me:  That is the merely transcendental definition of grace, yes. However the linguistic and philosophical concept of grace as in abundance, gifting and flow are completely applicable to human affairs and their systems. And I would argue that my concept of Grace as a trinity-unity-oneness-process experience of love in action, coming from and expressed wholly and/or in part in virtually all of mankind’s major wisdom traditions, is a broad spiritual reality that can be self determinedly embraced in whole or in part by naturalists and supernaturalists.

As far as Mt. Athos is concerned my wife, my son and myself boated past the peninsula upon which it is located in 1996 as actual landing there is very strictly regulated by the Orthodox Church, and women in fact are not allowed to set foot on it at all. So the isolation/localization premise still holds, and in fact the reason it is even still existing is because it has a major source of wealth and power that is maintaining it so its actually an inverse example of the premise that such monetary “solutions” cannot survive wealth and power….that is intentionally opposed to its existence.  The point being that the way to get the concept of monetary grace as in gifting actually implemented is to intelligently integrate it into the existing system in the form of aligned policies, and to do so by marketing its economic workability, its political solvency and its ethical ascendency to constituencies whose self interests it also serves. That’s how the church (incompletely) implemented Grace into the Roman Empire after all.