Renouncing Everything: Money and Discipleship in Luke
On a planet with billions of impoverished people, the perennial questions of money and morality become more poignant with each generation. On a planet with billions of Christians, Jesus’s teachings on possessions, especially in the Gospel of Luke, are of vital importance. Yet Luke’s writings seem impossible, unreasonable, and even mutually contradictory. This vigorous and accessible book guides readers through one of the knottiest issues in biblical studies: wealth ethics in the Gospel of the Poor.
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Renouncing Everything: Money and Discipleship in Luke
On a planet with billions of impoverished people, the perennial questions of money and morality become more poignant with each generation. On a planet with billions of Christians, Jesus’s teachings on possessions, especially in the Gospel of Luke, are of vital importance. Yet Luke’s writings seem impossible, unreasonable, and even mutually contradictory. This vigorous and accessible book guides readers through one of the knottiest issues in biblical studies: wealth ethics in the Gospel of the Poor.
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Renouncing Everything: Money and Discipleship in Luke

Renouncing Everything: Money and Discipleship in Luke

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Renouncing Everything: Money and Discipleship in Luke

Renouncing Everything: Money and Discipleship in Luke

by Christopher M. Hays

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On a planet with billions of impoverished people, the perennial questions of money and morality become more poignant with each generation. On a planet with billions of Christians, Jesus’s teachings on possessions, especially in the Gospel of Luke, are of vital importance. Yet Luke’s writings seem impossible, unreasonable, and even mutually contradictory. This vigorous and accessible book guides readers through one of the knottiest issues in biblical studies: wealth ethics in the Gospel of the Poor.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780809149919
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication date: 11/01/2016
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Thomas J. Massaro, SJ ix

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Abbreviations xix

Chapter 1 The Problems 1

Chapter 2 Toward an Explanation 15

Chapter 3 Total Commitment to God 25

Chapter 4 Models of Discipleship in Luke 35

Chapter 5 Models of Discipleship in Acts 53

Chapter 6 Why Renounce All? 67

Chapter 7 Guidance for the Contemporary Disciple 81

Notes 97

Bibliography 109

Index of Sources 113

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