Neoliberalism and the Biblical Voice

Owning and Consuming

Paul Babie, Michael Trainor

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Routledge
10 December 2019

New Testaments; Christian theology

Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

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.

By: Paul Babie, Michael Trainor
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9780367873035
ISBN 10: 0367873036
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 10 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Introduction 2 Neoliberalism Conceived: Politics, Economics and Law 3 The First Century Roman-Mediterranean Marketplace 4 Neoliberalism Deployed: Private Property 5 Wealth and Property in the Jesus Movement 6 Conclusion

Paul Babie holds a Personal Chair of Law in the Adelaide Law School of The University of Adelaide. Michael Trainor is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the Australian Catholic University, Adelaide.

Reviews for Neoliberalism and the Biblical Voice: Owning and Consuming

"""Babie and Trainor bring together various fields—economics, politics, religion (biblical studies), law—to examine questions of ownership and consumption and the choices we make to use, consume, change, mold and shape the world in which we live. They challenge contemporary readers to move from a self-focus to consideration of the other for the good of all."" – Warren Carter, Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University, USA"