Jeffrey W Robbins

Theology of Debt

Theology

“In Theology of Debt, Hollis Phelps practices a non-theology at its best. Both critical and constructive, this work mines the theological tradition to show how we have become hopelessly indebted subjects and how to liberate us from the power of debt. Taking specific aim at the centrality of the atonement theory within the Christian imagination, Phelps asks us to image the radical alternative not simply of an unredeemable life, but a life without the need for redemption—a practice of a form of life together in a state of natural, unburdened, childlike joy.”