Wealth as Peril and Obligation: The New Testament on Possessions - Softcover

Wheeler, Sondra Ely

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080280733X ISBN 13: 9780802807335

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Martha Ashby Carr Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080280733X
• ISBN 13: 9780802807335
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176