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Engaging economics : New Testament scenarios and early Christian reception / edited by Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company, (c)2009.Description: vii, 336 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802864147
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR115.L716.E543 2009
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Contents:
Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood -- Methodological issues in using economic evidence in interpretation of early Christian texts Peter Oakes -- New Testament scenarios -- Money matters : economic relations and the transformation of value in early Christianity Stephen C. Barton -- Jesus, virtuoso religion, and the community of goods Brian J. Capper -- The spirit and the "other," Satan and the "self" : economic ethics as a consequence of identity transformation in Luke-Acts Aaron J. Kuecker -- Agrarian discourse and the sayings of Jesus : "measure for measure" in Gospel traditions and agricultural practices John S. Kloppenborg -- Was God Paul's patron? : the economy of patronage in Pauline theology David J. Downs -- The economics of humility : the rich and the humble in James Mariam Kamell -- Aliens and strangers? : the socioeconomic location of the addressees of 1 Peter David G. Horrell -- Early Christian reception -- The poor of Galatians 2:10 : the interpretative paradigm of the first four centuries Bruce W. Longenecker -- Tertullian on widows : a North African appropriation of Pauline household economics David E. Wilhite -- Critiquing Rome's economy : Revelation and its reception in the Apostolic Fathers Grant Macaskill -- By almsgiving and faith sins are purged? : the theological underpinnings of early Christian care for the poor Christopher M. Hays -- Zacchaeus's half : ascetical economy in the Syriac Book of steps Robert A. Kitchen -- Afterword Bruce W. Longenecker.
Summary: '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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Introduction Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood -- Methodological issues in using economic evidence in interpretation of early Christian texts Peter Oakes -- New Testament scenarios -- Money matters : economic relations and the transformation of value in early Christianity Stephen C. Barton -- Jesus, virtuoso religion, and the community of goods Brian J. Capper -- The spirit and the "other," Satan and the "self" : economic ethics as a consequence of identity transformation in Luke-Acts Aaron J. Kuecker -- Agrarian discourse and the sayings of Jesus : "measure for measure" in Gospel traditions and agricultural practices John S. Kloppenborg -- Was God Paul's patron? : the economy of patronage in Pauline theology David J. Downs -- The economics of humility : the rich and the humble in James Mariam Kamell -- Aliens and strangers? : the socioeconomic location of the addressees of 1 Peter David G. Horrell -- Early Christian reception -- The poor of Galatians 2:10 : the interpretative paradigm of the first four centuries Bruce W. Longenecker -- Tertullian on widows : a North African appropriation of Pauline household economics David E. Wilhite -- Critiquing Rome's economy : Revelation and its reception in the Apostolic Fathers Grant Macaskill -- By almsgiving and faith sins are purged? : the theological underpinnings of early Christian care for the poor Christopher M. Hays -- Zacchaeus's half : ascetical economy in the Syriac Book of steps Robert A. Kitchen -- Afterword 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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