Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich

Loving the Poor, Saving the RichThe issue of wealth and poverty and its relationship to Christian faith is as ancient as the New Testament and reaches even further back to the Hebrew Scriptures. From the beginnings of the Christian movement, the issue of how to deal with riches and care for the poor formed an important aspect of Christian discipleship. This careful study shows how early Christians adopted, appropriated, and transformed the Jewish and Greco Roman moral teachings and

Acknowledging that we must take the biblical text seriously

Greg Peters

and includes study questions

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Often students want to maintain their Biblical Greek when they're between courses

It offers creative approaches to answering some of the most pressing questions in theology of mission and missionary practice today

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