Luke`s Wealth Ethics

CHRISTOPHER M. HAYS
Luke's Wealth Ethics
A Study in Their Coherence and Character
[Die Ethik des Besitzes im Lukasevangelium. Eine Untersuchung zu ihrer Kohärenz und ihrem
Charakters.]
Published in English.
The theme of wealth is one of the perennial hot topics in Lukan interpretation, as scholars have
often found Luke's teachings on the proper use of wealth to be intractably self-contradictory.
Christopher M. Hays addresses the apparent incongruity in Luke's ethical paraenesis.
Alternately disputing and drawing upon earlier accounts of Lukan wealth ethics, he argues that
Luke's Gospel narrates a spectrum of behaviors which actualize the basic principle of
renunciation of all. Undertaking a narrative-critical, ethic description, he shows that in Luke's
Gospel the manifestation of a disciple's renunciation depends upon two factors: the disciple's
vocation and his or her wealth. The author proceeds to analyze the text of Acts and to
demonstrate that Luke displays the Jerusalem community, and to a lesser extent, the Diaspora
Church, as faithfully appropriating and enacting Jesus' teachings on possessions.
2010. XV, 347 pages.
WUNT II 275
Christopher M. Hays Born 1983; is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Keble College in
Oxford.
ISBN 978-3-16-150269-9
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