Paul’s Gift Economy: Wages, Debt, and Debt Cancellation
| dc.contributor.author | Stolze, Ted | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-18T01:56:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-18T01:56:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | My focus is on the Biblical prophetic warning about, and solution to, severe debt injustice – whether individual or collective. I seek to demonstrate the New Testament’s continuity with the Jubilee theme of economic justice and debt cancellation laid out in the Hebrew Scriptures. In particular, I argue that Paul of Tarsus well understood the economic difficulties faced by wage laborers in the first-century Roman Empire and the all-too-real possibility of debt bondage, and – through his collection “for the poor among the consecrated at Jerusalem” – devised a creative means to reclaim the Biblical tradition of debt cancellation. In short, Paul envisioned what we could call a “gift economy” based not only on mutuality but also, and especially, on addressing the needs of the weak, vulnerable, and poor. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13086 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/280 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Paul of Tarsus, Marx and the Bible, Debt, Debt Cancellation, Jubilee, Gift Economy | en |
| dc.title | Paul’s Gift Economy: Wages, Debt, and Debt Cancellation | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article |