Sharing Possessions: What Faith Demands (Biblia.com)

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Respected scholar Luke Timothy Johnson challenges Christians to change the way they regard their worldly goods. He writes, “this book is written as an exercise in theological reflection on one of the knottiest questions imaginable: the connection between being a Christian and the way we own and use things.… When we turn to thinking about money and possessions, we find ourselves in murky waters....

God progressively “handing them over” (1:24, 26, 28) to their misconceptions, perverse attitudes, and behavior; and he calls the judgment coming upon them the revelation of “God’s wrath” (1:18). But it is clear that this alienation from God, with its resulting alienation from the self and other humans, is a result of human freedom; it comes about because of disobedience, a rejection at the most profound level, of the truth about one’s own being in the world as not sufficient unto itself but coming

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