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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.
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.
How does sensitivity to current ecological and environmental issues
impact on our hearing of the Gospels? About Earth's Child listens
for the ecological sounds that are present in Luke's narrative
symphony and offers a way for readers today to identify them.
Michael Trainor approaches Luke's Gospel with a fresh engagement
while respecting the evangelist's own purposes in addressing the
social and cultural concerns of first-century followers of Jesus.
Hearing the Gospel from an ecological perspective allows us to see
how Luke presents Jesus as 'Earth's Child'. In the Gospel's early
chapters, Jesus is presented as born of Earth, wrapped with Earth's
cloth and laid in Earth's manger. In the final chapters, he is
affixed to Earth's wood and laid in Earth's receptacle from where
he is resurrected and meets his disciples. Between these opening
and closing chapters a remarkable story of Earth unfolds. This
concerns all Earth's members, human and nonhuman, organic and
inanimate. It is about God, angels, demons, human beings, soil,
seeds, mountains, waters, animals (even ravens, pigs and a couple
of asses). Luke presents a fundamental truth about following Jesus:
how one treats Earth and freely shares its fruits are central. An
authentic disciple of Jesus is ecologically contemplative and
environmentally respectful. About Earth's Child sparkles with
surprising insights as Jesus' teaching and his meal and healing
ministries take on new meaning for today's world faced with growing
environmental challenges.
The ancient site of Colossae in south-west Turkey has been sorely
neglected by archaeologists and biblical commentators. It has never
been excavated. Modern scholarship in general has been content to
repeat nineteenth century assessments, especially those of J.B.
Lightfoot and W.M. Ramsay. This is the first modern contribution to
gather the archaeological, historical, classical and biblical
materials related to the site and its region, some of which is
published in English for the first time. It marks a major step
forward in scholarship on Colossae, and is designed to restore
Colossae to time and space, to its material and comparative
significance. Colossae emerges as a site of uninterrupted human
activity in dynamic interaction with its neighbours from before the
Achaemenid period to beyond the end of Byzantine control. Evidence
of a chalcolithic origin of Colossae is presented along with an
assessment of the relationship of the site to the modern city of
Honaz. An array of international scholars have brought their
specialisations in various periods and disciplines to yield a
radically new assessment of the history and importance of the site.
All future scholarship will be able to use this volume as the
necessary foundation for research. The volume includes the first
chronology of the ancient site and the first English translation of
the key Byzantine text centred on the ancient city, as well as
major new insights into the text of the Epistle to the Colossians.
The gospel of Luke presents an ecological symphony that reveals a
Jesus connected to Earth. His ministry touches all aspects of
creation, human and non-human, and invites disciples into an
ecological asceticism. This same spirit continues in the Acts of
the Apostles. In this Earth Bible Commentary on Acts, Michael
Trainor allows our environmental concerns to shape his
interpretative approach, and thus ecological nuances emerge. Luke's
household of disciples, imbued with the spirit of the risen Jesus,
to embrace the world and bring to it a word of reconciliation,
embark on this mission. This formally begins at Pentecost with
their reception of God's creative and renewing Spirit that empowers
them as Earth's children. From this moment an explosion of activity
moves them over Earth's lands, beginning in Jerusalem, Earth's
navel (Acts 1.1-8.1), into Samaria, the space in-between that navel
and Galilee, the garden of God's earthly delights (Acts 8.2-11.17),
to the ends of Earth, Rome (Acts 11.18-28.33). As we trace Luke's
vast geographical journey around the Mediterranean, key moments
highlight fresh environmental insights that offer new hope for
contemporary disciples seeking ecological affirmation at this
particular time in world history.
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