Wealth as Peril and Obligation: The New Testament on PossessionsSondra Ely Wheeler shows how Scripture can both form and inform contemporary moral discernment regarding wealth. After first developing a sound methodology for interpreting the New Testament's moral witness on this sticky ethical question, Wheeler gives a responsible exegesis of the key New Testament texts that deal with wealth and possessions. What results is a practical, biblically based statement regarding the ethics of wealth and ownership and a useful set of criteria for sound moral discernment concerning economic life within the contemporary Christian church. |
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Inhalt
Critical Review of Methodological Proposals | 1 |
The Contribution of James Gustafson | 2 |
Birch and Rasmussen | 5 |
Allen Verheys Proposal | 8 |
Scripture and Ethics in the Work of Hauerwas | 12 |
A Phenomenological Approach | 15 |
A Constructive Proposal | 19 |
Four Patterns of Moral Reasoning | 21 |
Text Translation and Boundaries | 96 |
Reading the Indictment | 97 |
The Moral Use of the Passage | 103 |
Canonical Context | 107 |
Matthew | 108 |
The Johannine Tradition | 112 |
The DeuteroPauline Traditions | 114 |
The General Epistles | 116 |
The New Testament as the Conveyor of a Moral World | 29 |
Methodological Conclusions | 32 |
Mark 101731 | 39 |
Translation | 40 |
Reading the Story | 43 |
The Moral Use of the Story | 52 |
Luke 122234 | 57 |
Reading the Passage | 60 |
The Implications of Fearlessness | 69 |
II Corinthians 8115 | 73 |
Text Translation and Literary Genre | 76 |
Reading Pauls Appeal Verses | 80 |
The Moral Use of the Text | 85 |
James 516 | 91 |
Table of Passages | 118 |
Themes in the New Testaments Treatment of Wealth | 121 |
The Antecedent Tradition | 123 |
Themes in the New Testaments Treatment of Wealth | 127 |
The New Testament on the Moral Status of Wealth Learning to Ask the Canons Questions | 135 |
Asking the Questions | 138 |
Sharing a Moral World | 144 |
Selected Bibliography | 151 |
General Biblical | 153 |
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