Sharing Possessions: What Faith Demands (Biblia.com)

Sharing Possessions: What Faith Demands is unavailable, but you can change that!

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....

My effort to think through these things appeared in a Fortress Press series called “Overtures to Biblical Theology,” and the placement in this series helped shape my project. My book takes the entire Bible seriously, and it tries to provide an example of theological thinking on the basis of the Bible that at once engages the realities of concrete human existence and the complexities of the scriptural texts. I stated in the original preface, “I remain fuzzy on many issues, but I am sure of this—scholarship

Page vii

Buy this book at Logos.com