Engaging economics : New Testament scenarios and early Christian reception /

Engaging economics : New Testament scenarios and early Christian reception / [print] edited by Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company, (c)2009. - vii, 336 pages ; 23 cm.



Introduction Methodological issues in using economic evidence in interpretation of early Christian texts New Testament scenarios -- Money matters : economic relations and the transformation of value in early Christianity Jesus, virtuoso religion, and the community of goods The spirit and the "other," Satan and the "self" : economic ethics as a consequence of identity transformation in Luke-Acts Agrarian discourse and the sayings of Jesus : "measure for measure" in Gospel traditions and agricultural practices Was God Paul's patron? : the economy of patronage in Pauline theology The economics of humility : the rich and the humble in James Aliens and strangers? : the socioeconomic location of the addressees of 1 Peter Early Christian reception -- The poor of Galatians 2:10 : the interpretative paradigm of the first four centuries Tertullian on widows : a North African appropriation of Pauline household economics Critiquing Rome's economy : Revelation and its reception in the Apostolic Fathers By almsgiving and faith sins are purged? : the theological underpinnings of early Christian care for the poor Zacchaeus's half : ascetical economy in the Syriac Book of steps Afterword Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood -- Peter Oakes -- Stephen C. Barton -- Brian J. Capper -- Aaron J. Kuecker -- John S. Kloppenborg -- David J. Downs -- Mariam Kamell -- David G. Horrell -- Bruce W. Longenecker -- David E. Wilhite -- Grant Macaskill -- Christopher M. Hays -- Robert A. Kitchen -- Bruce W. Longenecker.

'Emerging Economics' reveals the economic dimentisons of the theology of the early Jesus movement and explains how this is reflected in the texts of the New Testament and the reception of those texts within the patristic era.



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Bible.--New Testament


Economics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Economics in the Bible.

BR115.L716.E543 2009