Wealth as Peril and Obligation
The New Testament on Possessions
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Published: 1995
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Publisher's Description
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This timely study of the New Testament helps bring clarity to one of the great ethical dilemmas of the modern church — the moral status of wealth and the ownership of property and possessions in relation to Christian faith. Sondra 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.
Endorsements (2)
“A splendid book that describes and displays the relevance of the New Testament to contemporary Christian reflection about wealth. This book should make a significant contribution to churches gathered around Scripture in an effort to discern the shape of lives 'worthy of the gospel.' Wheeler brings important questions to the text, and to her great credit her reading of the New Testament allows the text to question us about our possessions.”
“Wheeler's work confirms the emergence of a new paradigm of interdisciplinary scholarship about the use of the New Testament in Christian ethics. . . . She shows us how to begin to read the Bible self-critically again. In fact, her approach opens the way for serious reengagement with the questions posed by the New Testament writings for the way we think about the moral significance of wealth and possessions. In the process, she points the way toward the kind of collective moral discernment about wealth and possessions that is much needed in contemporary Christian congregations.”
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