Foundations of Personal Finance
Foundations of Personal Finance
Foundations of Personal Finance: A Christian Perspective is a thirteen week study series exploring the foundations of personal finance from a Christian perspective. The following PDF file is a ROUGH draft of this entire series.
Foundations of Personal Finance (December 2020)
A podcast that covers some of the ethical issues addressed in this study can be found at:
Aaron Beam Speaks Podcast: Episode 31 (9/12/20)
(Be sure to scroll down to Episode 31.)
Session 1: Foundations
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Session 2: Philosophy: Logic and epistemology
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Session 3: Philosophy: Metaphysics and ethics
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Session 4: Nature of information
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Session 5: Existence of God
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Session 6: Competing worldviews
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Session 7: Naturalism, Christianity, and science
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Session 8: Problem of suffering
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Session 9: The Bible as hearsay or heresy
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Session 10: The Bible as history
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Session 11: Miracles
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Session 12: The grand miracle: The resurrection of Jesus Christ
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Session 13: Loving your neighbor and apologetics
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Robert E. Brooks
Wallace D. Malone, Jr. Professor of Financial Management
My research interests include financial derivatives, enterprise risk management, performance attribution, options, futures, swaps, and financial philosophy.