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Neoliberalism and the Biblical Voice: Owning and Consuming

By Paul Babie , Michael Trainor

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
1138902993, 9781138902992
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2843064 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Religion
Pages
163\163
Time added
2019-02-24 01:32:25
ConsumingNeoliberalismOwning

Description

This book compares our contemporary preoccupation with ownership and consumption with the role of property and possessions in the biblical world, contending that Christian theology provides a valuable entry point to discussing the issue of private property—a neoliberal tool with the capacity to shape the world in which we live by exercising control over the planet’s resources. Babie and Trainor draw on the teaching on property and possessions of Jesus of Nazareth. They demonstrate how subsequent members of the Jesus movement—the writers of early collection of Jesus sayings (called ‘Q’), and the gospels of Mark and Luke—reformulated Jesus’ teaching for different contexts that was radical and challenging for their own day. Their view of wealth and possessions continues today to be as relevant as ever. By placing the insights of the Galilean Jesus and the early Jesus movement into conversation with contemporary views on private property and consumer culture, the authors develop legal, philosophical and theological insights, what they describe as ‘seven theses’, into how our desire for ethical living fares in the neoliberal marketplace.

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