2 Thessalonians 3:6-16 warns Christians to stay away from "believers who are living in idleness." Is this general counsel against laziness, a warning about lazy ministers mooching off the community, or a prohibition of quitting work before the end of the world?
Malachi 3:10; Mark 10:17-31; John 10:10; 3 John 1:2
Current Issues
The Prosperity Gospel in the U.S. and/or Africa
Charity/Justice
Making a Prophet: Calling Others to Social Goods
Biblical Resources
Chaney, Marvin L. "Bitter Bounty: The Dynamics of Political Economy Critiqued by the Eighth-Century Prophets." In Reformed Faith and Economics (ed. Robert L. Stivers; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1989) 15-30.
--------. "The Political Economy of Peasant Poverty: What the Eighth-century Prophets Presumed but Did Not State." Journal of Religion and Society 10 (2014).
Coomber, Matthew J. M. Re-Reading the Prophets through Corporate Globalization: A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Economic Injustice in the Hebrew Bible, Biblical Intersections 4. Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias, 2010.
Dearman, J. Andrew. "Hebrew Prophecy and Social Criticism: Some Observations for Perspective." Perspectives in Religious Studies 9:2 (1982) 131-143.
Houston, Walter J. "Exit The Oppressed Peasant?: Rethinking The Background of Social Criticism in the Prophets." In Prophecy and Prophets in Ancient Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (ed. John Day; New York: T&T Clark, 2010) . 101-116.
Hutton, Jeremy. "Amos 1:3–2:8 and the International Economy of Iron Age II Israel." Harvard Theological Review 107:1 (2014) 81-113.
Jaruzelska, Izabela. Amos and the Officialdom in the Kingdom of Israel: The Socio-economic Position of the Officials in the Light of the Biblical, the Epigraphic and Archaeological Evidence, Seria Socjologia 25. Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 1998.
Lang, Bernhard. "The Social Organization of Peasant Poverty in Biblical Israel." In Anthropological Approaches to the Old Testament (ed. Bernard Lang; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985) 83-99.
Matthews, Victor H. The Hebrew Prophets and Their Social World: An Introduction, 2d rev. ed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2012.
Muthunayagom, Daniel Jones. "Exilic and Post-Exilic Prophets and Economic Issues." Voices from the Third World 20:1 (1997) 56-77.
Nel, Marius. "Forgiveness of Debt in Matthew 6:12, 14-15." Neotestamentica 47:1 (2013) 87-106.
Vaage, Leif E. "The Sermon on the Mount: An Economic Proposal." In God's Economy: Biblical Studies from Latin America (ed. Ross Kinsler and Gloria Kinsler; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2005) 127-51.
Forstater, Mathew. "Jobs and Freedom Now! Functional Finance, Full Employment, and the Freedom Budget." Review of Black Political Economy 39:1 (March 2012) 63-78.
Inwood, Joshua. "Contextualizing the State Mode of Production in the United States: Race, Space, and Civil Rights." Environment and Planning A 45:9 (September 2013) 2120-34.
Le Blanc, Paul. "Freedom Budget: The Promise of the Civil Rights Movement for Economic Justice." Working USA 16:1 (March 2013) 43-58.
Pero, Albert. "The Nature and Function of God as Interpreted by the Church in a World Divided by Poverty and Plenty." Currents in Theology and Mission 40:1 (2013) 24-32.
Richie, Cristina S. "The Racial and Economic Theories of James Cone and Martin Luther King Jr., Illuminated by 'The Sermon on the Mount.'" Black Theology 8:1 (2010) 86-106.
Smith, Kenneth L. "The Radicalization of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Three Years." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 26:2 (1989) 270-88.
Sturm, Douglas. "Martin Luther King, Jr., as Democratic Socialist." Journal of Religious Ethics 18:2 (1990) 79-105.
West, Cornel. "The Prophetic Tradition in Afro-America." The Drew Gateway 55:2-3 (1984–1985) 97-108.
Popular Literature
Forbes, James A., Jr. "Emancipation from Poverty." In Just Preaching: Prophetic Voices for Economic Justice (ed. André Resner, Jr.; St. Louis: Chalice, 2003) 111-18.
Satterwhite, John Henry. "In the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Elimination of Poverty: A Scriptural Commandment." The AME Zion Quarterly Review 94:2 (1982) 35-8.
Tigay, Jeffrey H. Deuteronomy, The JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996. There is a second edition from 2003, but our library does not have it.
The Tea Party's Unbiblical Economic Platform
McTague, John and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz. "Voting From the Pew: The Effect of Senators' Religious Identities on Partisan Polarization in the U.S. Senate." Legislative Studies Quarterly 38 (2013) 405-430.
Schnabel, Landon Paul. "When Fringe Goes Mainstream: A Sociohistorical Content Analysis of the Christian Coalition's Contract With The American Family and the Republican Party Platform." Politics, Religion and Ideology 14 (2013) 94-113.
Popular Literature
Balmer, Randall. Thy Kingdom Come: An Evangelical's Lament. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
Charity/Justice
Jewish Tzedekah: The Obligation to Give to the Poor
Scriptural Resources
Avery-Peck, Alan J. "Charity in Judaism." In The Encyclopaedia of Judaism (ed. Jacob Neusner et al.; Leiden: Brill, 205) 1.335-47.
Becknell, Robert B. "Almsgiving, the Jewish Legacy of Justice and Mercy." Ph.D. dissertation, Miami University of Ohio, 2000.
Bird, Frederick B. "A Comparative Study of the Work of Charity in Christianity and Judaism." Journal of Religious Ethics 10:1 (1982) 144-69.
Gardner, Gregg E. "Charity Wounds: Gifts to the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism." In The Gift in Antiquity (ed. Michael L. Satlow; The Ancient World—Comparative Histories; Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) 173-88.
--------. "Cornering Poverty: Mishnah Peah, Tosefta Peah, and the Reimagination of Society in Late Antiquity." In Envisioning Judaism: Studies in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (ed. Raʿanan S. Boustan, Klaus Herrmann, Reimund Leicht, Annette Yoshiko Reed and Giuseppe Veltri; 2 vols.; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013) 1.205-216.
--------. The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
--------. "Who is Rich? The Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism." Jewish Quarterly Review 104:4 (2014) 515-36.
Gray, Alyssa M. "The Formerly Wealthy Poor: From Empathy to Ambivalence in Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity." AJS Review 33 (2009) 101-133.
--------. "Redemptive Almsgiving and the Rabbis of Late Antiquity." Jewish Studies Quarterly 18 (2011) 149-54.
Greenspoon, Leonard J. "'God Stands Together with the Poor': How Jews Viewed Poverty and Aided the Poor in the Post-biblical Period." Journal of Religion and Society 10 (2014).
Hamel, Gildas. Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine, First Three Centuries, C.E., Near Eastern Studies 23. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
--------. "Poverty and Charity." In The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine (ed. Catherine Hezser; Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Hands, A. R. Charity and Social Aid in Greece and Rome. London: Thames and Hudson, 1968.
Kindler, Arieh. "A Bar Kokhba Coin Used as a Charity Token." Israel Numismatic Journal 12 (1992–1993) 73-5.
Leventhal, Bob and Shawn Israel Zevit. "Money and Spiritual Life: A Jewish Approach to Obligatory Giving." Congregations 27:6 (2001) 9-11, 23.
Loewenberg, Frank M. From Charity to Social Justice: The Emergence of Communal Institutions for the Support of the Poor in Ancient Judaism. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2001.
Ottenheijm, Eric. "The Consolation of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai." Nederlands theologisch tijdschrift 66:1 (2012) 47-60.
Novick, Tzvi. "Charity and Reciprocity: Structures of Benevolence in Rabbinic Literature." Harvard Theological Review 105:1 (2012) 33-52.
Rustow, Marina. "Benefaction (ni'ma), Gratitue (shukr), and hte Politics of Giving and Receiving in Letters from the Cairo Geniza." In Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions (ed. Miriam Frenkel and Yaacov Lev; New York: De Gruyter, 2009) 365-90.
Satlow, Michael L. "'Fruit and the Fruit of Fruit': Charity and Piety among Jews in Late Antique Palestine." Jewish Quarterly Review 100:2 (2010) 244-77.
--------. "Giving for a Return: Jewish Votive Offerings in Late Antiquity." In Religion and the Self in Antiquity (ed. David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow and Steven Weitzman; Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2005) 91-108.
Schmelzer, Menahem. "Penitence, Prayer and (Charity?)." In Minḥah le-Naḥum: Biblical and Other Studies Presented to Nahum M. Sarna in Honour of His 70th Birthday (ed. Marc Zvi Brettler and Michael A. Fishbane; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993) 291-99.
Sorek, Susan. Remembered for Good: A Jewish Benefaction System in Ancient Palestine. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2010.
Ulmer, Moshe. "The Rabbinic Concept of Tsedakah." M.A. thesis, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, 1988.
Biblical Commentaries
Lieberman, S., ed. The Tosefta: The Orders of Zeraim, Moed, Nashim, Nezikin, 4 vols. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1955–1988. (See volume 1, page 60).
Tzedekah & Tikkun Olam
Blidstein, Gerald J. "Tikkun Olam." Tradition 29:2 (1995) 5-43.
Frisch, Ephraim. An Historical Survey of Jewish Philanthropy: From the Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century. New York: Macmillan, 1924.
Marx, Tzvi. "Priorities in Zedekah and Their Implications." Judaism 28:1 (1979) 80-89.
Fensham, F. Charles. "Widow, Orphan, and the Poor in Ancient Near Eastern Legal and Wisdom Literature." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 21:2 (1962) 129-39. Reprinted in Studies in Ancient Israelite Wisdom (ed. James L. Crenshaw; Library of Biblical Studies; New York: KTAV, 1976) 161-71.
Frick, Frank S. "Widows in the Hebrew Bible: A Transactional Approach." In A Feminist Companion to Exodus and Deuteronomy (ed. Athalya Brenner; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994) 139-51.
Gowan, Donald E. "Wealth and Poverty in the Old Testament: The Case of the Widow, the Orphan, and the Sojourner." Interpretation 41:4 (1987) 341-353.
Hanson, Paul. "The Ancient Near Eastern Roots of Social Welfare." In Through the Eye of a Needle: Judeo-Christian Roots of Social Welfare (ed. Emily Albu Hanawalt and Carter Lindberg; Kirksville, Missouri: The Thomas Jefferson University Press at Northeast Missouri State University, 1994) 7-28.
Heller, Roy L. "'The Widow' in Deuteronomy: Beneficiary of Compassion and Co-Option." In The Impartial God: Essays in Biblical Studies in Honor of Jouette M. Bassler (ed. Calvin J. Roetzel and Robert L. Foster; New Testament Monographs 22; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007) 1-11.
Hiebert, Paula S. "'Whence Shall Help Come to Me?' The Biblical Widow." In Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel (ed. Peggy L. Day; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989) 125-41.
Leeb, Carolyn S. "The Widow in the Hebrew Bible: Homeless and Post-Menopausal." Proceedings: Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Societies 21 (2001) 61-67.
Meyers, Carol L. "In the Household and Beyond: The Social World of Israelite Women." Studia theologica 63:1 (2009) 19-41.
Patterson, Richard D. "The Widow, the Orphan, and the Poor in the Old Testament and Extra-Biblical Literature." Bibliotheca Sacra 130:519 (1973) 223-234.
Rook, John. "When Is a Widow Not a Widow? Guardianship Provides an Answer." Biblical Theology Bulletin 28:1 (1998) 4-6.
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob. "Postcolonial Perspectives on Premonarchic Women." In To Break Every Yoke: Essays in Honor of Marvin L. Chaney (ed. Norman K. Gottwald and Robert B. Coote; Social World of Biblical Antiquity 2d series 3; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007) 188-99.
--------. "The Story of Ruth: Economic Survival." In Realia Dei: Essays in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Edward F. Campbell, Jr. at His Retirement (ed. Prescott H. Williams, Jr. and Theodore Hiebert; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999) 215-27.
Sinkins, Ronald A. "The Widow and Orphan in the Political Economy of Ancient Israel." Journal of Religion and Society 10 (2014).
Siquans, Agnethe. "Foreignness and Poverty in the Book of Ruth: A Legal Way for a Poor Foreign Woman to be Integrated into Israel." Journal of Biblical Literature 128:3 (2009) 443-52.
Uys, P. H. de V. "The Term 'Almana in the Book of Proverbs." In Studies in Wisdom Literature (ed. W. C. Van Wyk; Hercules, South Africa: N. H. W. Press, 1981) 74-81.
Hammer, Tiffany. "Wealthy Widows and Female Apostles: The Economic and Social Status of Women in Early Roman Christianity." In Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church (ed. Geoffrey D. Dunn, David Luckensmeyer and Lawrence Cross; Everton Park/Banyo, Queensland: Centre for Early Christian Studies/Australian Catholic University, 2009) 65-74.
Horrell, David. "Disciplining Performance and 'Placing' the Church: Widows, Elders and Slaves in the Household of God (1 Tim 5,1–6,2)." In 1 Timothy Reconsidered (ed. Karl P. Donfired; Leuven: Peeters, 2008) 109-134.
Winter, Bruce W. "Providentia for the Widows of 1 Timothy 5:3-16." Tyndale Bulletin 39 (1988) 83-99.
Early Christian Care for Widows
Serfass, Adam. "Wine for Widows: Papyrological Evidence for Christian Charity in Late Antique Egypt." In Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society (ed. Susan R. Holman; Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008) 88-102.
Walsh, Efthalia Makris. "Wealthy and Impoverished Widows in the Writings of St. John Chrysostom." In Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society (ed. Susan R. Holman; Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008) 176-86.
Wilhite, David E. "Tertullian on Widows: A North African Appropriation of Pauline Household Economics." In Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception (ed. Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2009) 222-242.
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob. Ruth, Interpretation Commentary. Louisville: John Knox, 1999.
Tigay, Jeffrey H. Deuteronomy, The JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996. There is a second edition from 2003, but our library does not have it.
Contemporary Economic Situation
The bibliography below focuses on the U.S., but there are many studies of the economic circumstances of widows in other parts of the world.
Bethencourt, Carlos and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull. "On the Living Arrangements of Elderly Widows." International Economic Review 50:3 (2009) 773-801.
Brien, Michael J., Stacy Dickert-Conlin and David A. Weaver. "Widows Waiting to Wed? (Re)marriage and Economic Incentives in Social Security Widow Benefits." Journal of Human Resources 39:3 (2004) 585-623.
Burkhauser, Richard V. "Changes in the Economic Well-Being of Widows Following the Death of Their Husband: A Four Country Comparison." Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften/ Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 123:1 (2003) 151-61.
Iams, Howard M. and Christopher R. Tamborini. "The Implications of Marital History Change on Women's Elibigility for Social Security Wife and Widow Benefits, 1990–2009." Social Security Bulletin 72:2 (2012) 23-38.
Kaveny, M. Cathleen. "The Order of Widows: What the Early Church Can TEach Us about Older Women and Health Care." Christian Bioethics 11:1 (2005) 11-34.
McDonald, Lynn, Peter Donahue and Brooke Moore. "The Poverty of Retired Widows." In Independence and Economic Security in Old Age (ed. Frank T. Denton, Deborah Fretz and Byron G. Spencer; Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000) 328-45.
McGarry, Kathleen and Robert F. Schoeni. "Medicare Gaps and Widow Poverty." Social Security Bulletin 66:1 (2005) 58-74.
--------. "Social Security, Economic Growth, and the Rise in Elderly Widows' Independence in the Twentieth Century." Demography 37:2 (2000) 221-36.
Sevak, Purvi, David R. Weir and Robert J. Willis. "The Economic Consequences of a Husband's Death: Evidence from the HRS and AHEAD." Social Security Bulletin 65:3 (2003–2004) 31-44.
Weir, David R. and Robert J. Willis. "Prospects for Widow Poverty." In Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth (ed. Olivia S. Mitchell, P. Brett Hammond and Anna M. Rappaport; Pension Research Council Publications; Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000) 208-234.
Zissimopoulos, Julie M., Benjamin R. Karney and Amy J. Rauer. "Marriage and Economic Well Being at Older Ages." Review of Economics of the Household 13:1 (2015) 1-35.
Charity/Justice
Protecting the Immigrant
Biblical Resources
Asen, Bernhard A. "From Acceptance to Inclusion: The Stranger (gēr) in Old Testament Tradition." In Christianity and the Stranger: Historical Essays (ed. Francis W. Nichols; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995) 16-35.
Auffarth, Christoph. "Protecting Strangers: Establishing a Fundamental Value in the Religions of the Ancient Near East and Ancient Greece." Numen 39:2 (1992) 193-216.
Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Ruth and Esther, Feminist Companion to the Bible, first series, 2nd ed. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 1999.
Carroll, R. and M. Daniel. "Welcoming the Stranger: Toward a Theology of Immigration in Deuteronomy." In For Our Good Always: Studies on the Message and Influence of Deuteronomy in Honor of Daniel I. Block (ed. Jason S. DeRouchie, Jason Gile and Kenneth J. Turner; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 441-61.
Fensham, F. Charles. "Widow, Orphan, and the Poor in Ancient Near Eastern Legal and Wisdom Literature." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 21:2 (1962) 129-39.
Hanson, Paul. "The Ancient Near Eastern Roots of Social Welfare." In Through the Eye of a Needle: Judeo-Christian Roots of Social Welfare (ed. Emily Albu Hanawalt and Carter Lindberg; Kirksville, Missouri: The Thomas Jefferson University Press at Northeast Missouri State University, 1994) 7-28.
Smith-Christopher, Daniel L. "Between Ezra and Isaiah: Exclusion, Transformation and Inclusion ofthe 'Foreigner' in Post-exilic Biblical Theology." In Ethnicity and the Bible (ed. Marg G. Brett; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996) 117-42.
Sneed, Mark. "Israelite Concern for the Alien, Orphan, and Widow: Altruism or Ideology?" Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 111:4 (1999) 498-507.
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob. Ruth, Interpretation Commentary. Louisville: John Knox, 1999.
Immigrants Today
Ahn, Ilsup, Agnes Chiu and William R. O'Neill. "'And You Welcomed Me?': A Theological Response of the Militarization of the US-Mexico Borders and the Criminalization of Undocumented Immigrants." Cross Currents 63:3 (2013) 303-322.
Brenner, Athalya. "From Ruth to the 'Global Woman': Social and Legal Aspects." Interpretation 64:2 (2010) 162-7.
Schaab, Gloria L. "Which of These Was Neighbour?: Spiritual Dimensions of the US Immigration Question." International Journal of Public Theology 2:2 (2008) 182-202.
Charity/Justice
Adapting Gift Exchange: Introducing Alms to the Roman Empire
Brown, Michael Joseph. "Performance Anxiety: The Use of υποκριτής in Matthew 6:1-18." In Scripture and Traditions: Essays on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Carl R. Holladay (ed. Patrick Gray and Gail R. O'Day; Boston: Brill, 2008) 115-36.
Datiri, Dachollom C. "Finances in the Pauline Churches: A Socio-exegetical Study of the Funding of Paul's Mission and the Financial Administration of His Congregation." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sheffield, 1996.
Domeris, William. "Cellars, Wages and Gardens: Luke's Accommodation for Middle-Class Christians." Hervormde Teologiese Studies 49:1–2 (1993) 85-100.
Downs, David J. "Is God Paul's Patron? The Economy of Patronage in Pauline Theology." In Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception (ed. Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2009) 129-56.
Drew, Gavin. "'Show Me the Money!' Part 1. Speculations concerning Jesus and the Temple." Stimulus 17:3 (2009) 37-48.
Friesen, Steven J. "Paul and Economics: The Jerusalem Collection as an Alternative to Patronage." In Paul Unbound: Other Perspectives on the Apostle (ed. Mark D. Given; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 2010) 27-54.
Harrison, James R. Paul's Language of Grace in Its Graeco-Roman Context, WUNT 2/172. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.
Hellerman, Joseph H. Reconstructing Honor in Roman Philippi: Carmen Christi as Cursus Pudorum, SNTSMS 132. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Krüger, René. "Conversion of the Pocketbook: The Economic Project of Luke's Gospel." In God's Economy: Biblical Studies from Latin America (ed. Ross Kinsler and Gloria Kinsler; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2005) 169-201.
Malina, Bruce J. "Patron and Client: The Analogy behind Synoptic Theology." Forum 4:1 (1988) 2-32.
Mathew, Sam P. "The Poor and the Rich in Luke's Gospel." Religion and Society 51:2-3 (2006) 42-75.
Ogereau, Julien M. "Paul's κοινωνία with the Philippians: Societas as a Missionary Funding Strategy." New Testament Studies 60:3 (2014) 360-78.
Nürnberger, Klaus. "The Economics of Paul." In Affluence, Poverty and the Word of God: An Interdisciplinary Study Program of the Missiological Institute, Mapumulo (ed. Klaus Nürnberger; Durban, Natal: Lutheran Publishing House, 1978) 163-171.
Van der Merwe, Dirk G. "Rich Man, poor Man in Jerusalem according to the Letter of James." Acta patristica et byzantina 21:1 (2010) 18-46.
White, Joel. "Meals in Pagan Temples and Apostolic Finances: How Effective is Paul's Argument in 1 Corinthians 9:1-23 in the Context of 1 Corinthians 8–10?" Bulletin for Biblical Research 23:4 (2013) 531-46.
Early Christian Material
Arterbury, Andrew E. Entertaining Angels: Early Christian Hospitality in its Mediterranean Setting, New Testament Monographs 8. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2005.
Brown, Peter. Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures. Hanover: Brandeis, 2002.
Ferrero, Mario. "The Triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire: An Economic Interpretation." Journal of Political Economy 24:1 (2008) 73-87.
Finn, Richard. Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire: Christian Promotion and Practice (315–450). New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Giambrone, Anthony. "'According to the Commandment' (Did 1.5): Lexical Reflections on Almsgiving as 'the Commandment.'" New Testament Studies 60:4 (2014) 448-65.
Hamel, Gildas. Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine, First Three Centuries, C.E., Near Eastern Studies 23. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Holman, Susan R. The Hungry are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Johnson, Kelly S. The Fear of Beggars: Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2007.
Leyerle, Blake. "John Chrysostom on Almsgiving and the Use of Money." Harvard Theological Review 87 (1994) 29-47.
Muir, Steven C. "'Caring for the Weak': Polytheist and Christian Charity in Sardis and Smyrna." In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna (ed. R. S. Ascough; Studies in Christianity and Judaism 16; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005) 123-40.
--------. "'Look How They Love One Another': Early Christian and Pagan Care for the Sick and Other Charity." In Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity (ed. Leif E. Vaage; Studies in Christianity and Judaism 18; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006) 213-31.
Seccombe, David. "Was There Organized Charity in Jerusalem before the Christians?" Journal of Theological Studies 29 (1978)140-43.
Serfass, Adam. "Wine for Widows: Papyrological Evidence for Christian Charity in Late Antique Egypt." In Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society (ed. Susan R. Holman; Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History; Grand Rapids, Michigan/Brookline, Massachusetts: Baker/Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2008) 88-102.
Speckman, McGlory T. "'Bread and Circuses' in Antiquity: The Obligation of a Public Figure to His/Her Social Constituency." Acta patristica et byzantina 13 (2002) 187-206.
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991
Charity & the Preferential Option for the Poor
Byrne, Patrick H. "Ressentiment and the Preferential Option for the Poor." Theological Studies 54:2 (1993) 213-41.
González, Justo L. "The Option for the Poor in Latin American Liberation Theology." In Poverty and Ecclesiology: Nineteenth-century Evangelicals in the Light of Liberation Theology (ed. Justo L. González and Anthony L. Dunnavant; Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1992) 9-26.
Bratton, Susan. "Chrsitian Ecotheology and the Old Testament." In Religion and Environmental Crisis (ed. Eugene C. Hargrove; Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1986) 53-75.
Downing, F. Gerald. "Environment, Beauty and Bible." Ecotheology 7:2 (2003) 186-201.
Estes, Daniel J. "Creation Theology in Psalm 148." Bibliotheca Sacra 171:681 (2014) 30-41.
Frick, Brandon. "Covenant Ecology: The Inseparability of Covenant and Creation in the Book of Genesis." In Genesis and Christian Theology (ed. Nathan MacDonald, Mark W. Elliott and Grant Macaskill; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2012) 204-215.
Field, David N. "The Theological Authority of the Bible and Ecological Theology." Scriptura 101 (2009) 206-218.
Habel, Normal C. "Introducing Ecological Hermeneutics." Lutheran Theological Journal 46:2 (2012) 97-105.
Pinson, William M., Jr. "A Denominational Perspective on Biblical Stewardship." In The Earth is the Lord's: Christians and the Environment (ed. Richard D. Land and Louis A. Moore; Nashville: Broadman, 1992) 126-42.
Richter, Sandra L. "The Bible and American Environmenal Practice: An Anciet Code Addresses a Current Crisis." In The Bible and the American Future (ed. Robert Jewett, with Wayne L. Alloway Jr. and John G. Lacey; Eugene, Oregon: Cascade, 2009) 106-129.
--------. "Environmental Law in Deuteronomy: One Lens on a Biblical Theology of Creation Care." Bulletin for Biblical Research 20:3 (2010) 355-76.
Schroer, Silvia. "The Forgotten Divinity of Creation: Suggestions for a Revision of Old Testament Creation Theology in the 21st Century." In Congress Volume Ljubljana 2007 (ed. André Lemaire; Boston: Brill, 2010) 321-37.
Thomas, Heath. "Building House to House (Isaiah 5:8): Theological Reflection on Land Development and Creation Care." Bulletin for Biblical Research 21:2 (2011) 189-212.
Biblical Commentaries
Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Genesis, Feminist Companion to the Bible, first series, 2nd ed. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 1998.
Cotter, David W. Genesis, Berit Olam. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2003.
Environmental Stewardship
Anderson, William L. and Timothy D. Terrell. "Stewardship without Prices and Private Property? Modern Evangelical Environmentalism's Struggle to Value Nature." Journal of Markets and Morality 6:2 (2003) 565-95.
Barkey, Michael B. Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Jewish , Catholic, and Protestant Wisdom on the Environment. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Acton Institute, 2000.
Foster, John, ed. Valuing Nature? Ethics, Economics and the Environment. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Greenberg, Nadivah. "Shop Right: American Conservatisms, Consumption, and the Environment." Environmental Politics 6:2 (2006) 85-111.
Thampapillai, Dodo J. and Shandre M. Thangavelu. "Towards Unitary Economics: Valuation of Environmental Capital for Environmental Stewardship." International Journal of Social Economics 31:3–4 (2004) 430-42.
Bratton, Susan. "Christian Ecotheology and the Old Testament." In Religion and Environmental Crisis (ed. Eugene C. Hargrove; Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1986) 53-75.
Downing, F. Gerald. "Environment, Beauty and Bible." Ecotheology 7:2 (2003) 186-201.
Estes, Daniel J. "Creation Theology in Psalm 148." Bibliotheca Sacra 171:681 (2014) 30-41.
Frick, Brandon. "Covenant Ecology: The Inseparability of Covenant and Creation in the Book of Genesis." In Genesis and Christian Theology (ed. Nathan MacDonald, Mark W. Elliott and Grant Macaskill; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2012) 204-215.
Field, David N. "The Theological Authority of the Bible and Ecological Theology." Scriptura 101 (2009) 206-218.
Habel, Normal C. "Introducing Ecological Hermeneutics." Lutheran Theological Journal 46:2 (2012) 97-105.
Kopstein, Patricia and Jim Salinger. "The Ecocentric Challenge: Climate Change and the Jewish Tradition." Ecotheology 6:1–2 (200-–2002) 60-74.
Marlow, Hilary. "'What Am I in a Boundless Creation?': An Ecological Reading of Sirach 16 and 17." Biblical Interpretation 22:1 (2014) 34-50.
Pinson, William M., Jr. "A Denominational Perspective on Biblical Stewardship." In The Earth is the Lord's: Christians and the Environment (ed. Richard D. Land and Louis A. Moore; Nashville: Broadman, 1992) 126-42.
Richter, Sandra L. "The Bible and American Environmenal Practice: An Anciet Code Addresses a Current Crisis." In The Bible and the American Future (ed. Robert Jewett, with Wayne L. Alloway Jr. and John G. Lacey; Eugene, Oregon: Cascade, 2009) 106-129.
--------. "Environmental Law in Deuteronomy: One Lens on a Biblical Theology of Creation Care." Bulletin for Biblical Research 20:3 (2010) 355-76.
Schroer, Silvia. "The Forgotten Divinity of Creation: Suggestions for a Revision of Old Testament Creation Theology in the 21st Century." In Congress Volume Ljubljana 2007 (ed. André Lemaire; Boston: Brill, 2010) 321-37.
Thomas, Heath. "Building House to House (Isaiah 5:8): Theological Reflection on Land Development and Creation Care." Bulletin for Biblical Research 21:2 (2011) 189-212.
Biblical Commentaries
Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Genesis, Feminist Companion to the Bible, first series, 2nd ed. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 1998.
Cotter, David W. Genesis, Berit Olam. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2003.
Water Access & Scarcity
Famiglietti, J.S. "The Global Groundwater Crisis." Nature Climate Change 4 (online 29 October 2014) 945-8. Doi: 10.1038/nclimate2424.
Adewale, James D. "The Economic Implication of Jesus' Feeding of the Multitude for the Church Today." In WAATI (Nigeria Zone) 2009 Papers: Theological Education and Economic Recession (Ed. Samuel P. Ango, Samuel Segun Asaju, and Tamunoibi Rogers Miller; Ilorin, Nigeria: West African Association of Theological Institutions, 2011) 52-65.
Bammel, Ernst. "The Feeding of the Multitude." In Jesus and the Politics of his Day (ed. Ernst Bammel and C. F. D. Moule; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) 211-240.
Boje, Edward A. "The Economic Implications of Jesus' Feeding of the Multitude for the Church Today." In WAATI (Nigeria Zone) 2009 Papers: Theological Education and Economic Recession (ed. Samuel P. Ango, Samuel Segun Asaju, and Tamunoibi Rogers Miller; Ilorin, Nigeria: West African Association of Theological Institutions, 2011) 138-150.
Corbier, Mireille. "The Broad Bean and the Moray: Social Hierarchies and Food in Rome." In Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present (ed. Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari; trans. Clarissa Botsford et al.; New York: Columbia University Press, 1999) 128-40.
Garnsey, Peter. Cities, Peasants, and Food in Classical Antiquity: Essays in Social and Economic History, ed. Walter Scheidel. New York: Cambridge Univeristy Press 1998.
Kiel, Micah. "The Apocalyptic Significance of Mark's First Feeding Narrative (6:34-44)." Koinonia 18 (2006) 93-113.
Kim, Stephen S. "The Christological and Eschatological Significance of Jesus' Passover Signs in John 6." Bibliotheca Sacra 164: 655 (2007) 307-322.
Lev-Tov, Justin. "'Upon What Meat Doth This Our Caesar Feed...?': A Dietary Perspective on Hellenistic and Roman Influence in Palestine." In Zeichen aus Text und Stein: Studeien auf dem Weg zu einer Archäologie des Neuen Testament (ed. S. Alkier and Jurgen Zangenberg; Tübingen: Francke, 2003) 420-46.
Speckman, McGlory T. "'Bread and Circuses' in Antiquity: The Obligation of a Public Figure to His/Her Social Constituency." Acta patristica et byzantina 13 (2002) 187-206.
Winter, Bruce W. "Acts and Food Shortages." In The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting (ed. David W. J. Gill and Conrad Gempf; BAFCS 2; Grand Rapids/Carlisle, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans/Paternoster, 1994) 59-78.
Popular Sources
Brueggemann, Walter. "Food Fight." Word & World 33:4 (2013) 319-340.
Poon, Wilson C. K. "Superabundant Table Fellowship in the Kingdom: The Feeding of the Five Thousand and the Meal Motif in Luke." Expository Times 114:7 (2003) 224-230.
Biblical Commentaries
Donahue, John R. and Daniel J. Harrington. The Gospel of Mark, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2002.
Harrington, Daniel J. The Gospel of Matthew, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991
Block, Daniel R., et al. "Food Sovereignty, Urban Food Access, and Food Activism: Contemplating the Connections through Examples from Chicago." Agriculture and Human Values 29:2 (2012) 203-215.
Dahl, Molly, Thomas DeLeire and Shannon Mok. "Food Insufficiency and Income Volatility in US Households: The Effects of Imputed Income in the Survey of Income and Program Participation." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 36:3 (2014) 416-437.
Dini, Ali and Victor Lippit. "Food Subsidies, Growth and Poverty: A Critique on Neoliberal Institutional Structure." University of California at Riverside, Department of Economics, Working Papers 200912. (2009).
Donald, Betsy. "Food Retail and Access after the Crash: Rethinking the Food Desert Problem." Journal of Economic Geography 13:2 (2013) 231-237.
Kato, Yuki and Laura McKinney. "Bringing Food Desert Residents to an Alternative Food Market: A Semi-Experimental Study of Impediments to Food Access." Agriculture and Human Values 32:2 (2015) 215-227.
Kiggins, Elizabeth and Susan L. Erikson. "’No Food in the House': Policy Ambiguity, Inaction, and Food Insecurity." Community Development Journal 48:4 (2013) 623-638.
LeClair, Mark S. and Anna-Maria Aksan. "Redefining the Food Desert: Combining GIS with Direct Observation to Measure Food Access." Agriculture and Human Values 31:4 (2014) 537-547.
Wilde, Parke, Joseph Llobrera and Michele Ver Ploeg. "Population Density, Poverty, and Food Retail Access in The United States: An Empirical Approach." International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) 171-186.
Calef, Susan A. "'Prophet Margins' in the Economy of Salvation: Having, Being, and Doing the Gospel of Luke." Journal of Religion and Society 10 (2014).
Lemcio E. "The Parables of the Great Supper and the Wedding Feast: History, Redaction and Canon." Horizons in Biblical Theology 8:1 (1986)1-26.
Neyrey, Jerome H. "Ceremonies in Luke-Acts: The Case of Meals and Table Fellowship." In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation (ed. Jerome H. Neyrey; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1991) 361-87.
Speckman, McGlory T. "'Bread and Circuses' in Antiquity: The Obligation of a Public Figure to His/Her Social Constituency." Acta patristica et byzantina 13 (2002) 187-206.
Van Eck E. "When Patrons Are Patrons: A Social-scientific and Realistic Reading of the Parable of the Feast (Lk 14:16b-23)." Hervormde teologiese studies 69:1 (2013). Doi: 10.4102/hts.v69i1.1375.
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991
Global Food Access
Kahiluoto, Helena, et al. "Mitigation of Climate Change to Enhance Food Security: An Analytical Framework." Forum for Development Studies 39:1 (2012) 51-73.
Lin, Justin Yifu and Will Martin. "The Financial Crisis and Its Impacts on Global Agriculture." Agricultural Economics Supplement 41 (2010) 133-44.
Marktanner, Marcus and Luc P. Noiset. "Food Price Crisis, Poverty, and Inequality." Developing Economies 51:3 (2013) 303-320.
Munesue, Yosuke, Toshihiko Masui and Takesato Fushima. "The Effects of Reducing Food Losses and Food Waste on Global Food Insecurity, Natural Resources, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions." Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 17:1 (2015) 43-77.
Randolph, Susan and Shareen Hertel. "The Right to Food: A Global Overview," Economic Rights Working Papers 20. University of Connecticut, Human Rights Institute, 2012.
Saravia-Matus, Silvia, Sergio Gomez y Paloma and Sebastien Mary. "Economics of Food Security: Selected Issues." Bio-Based and Applied Economics 1:1 (2012) 65-80.
Schoenbaum, Thomas J. "Fashioning a New Regime for Agricultural Trade: New Issues and the Global Food Crisis." Journal of International Economic Law 14:3 (2011) 593-611.
Suryanarayana, M. H. and Dimitri Silva. "Is Targeting the Poor a Penalty on the Food Insecure? Poverty and Food Insecurity in India." Journal of Human Development 8:1 (2007) 89-107.
Tiwari, Sailesh and Hassan Zaman. "The Impact of Economic Shocks on Global Undernourishment." The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper Series 5215, 2010.
Health Care
Healing, Salvation & Access to Care
Biblical Resources
Avalos, Hector. Health Care and the Rise of Early Christianity. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1999.
--------. Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel, Harvard Semitic Museum Publications. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.
Carroll, John T. "Sickness and Healing in the New Testament Gospels." Interpretation 49 (1995) 130-42.
Crislip, Andrew. Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity, Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Edelstein, Emma J. and Ludwig Edelstein. "Greek Medicine in Its Relation to Religion and Magic." In Ancient Medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein (ed. Owsei Temkin and C. Lilian Temkin; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967) 205-46.
Hogan, Larry P. Healing in the Second Tempel [sic] Period, NTOA 21. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992.
Howard, J. Keir. Disease and Healing in the New Testament: An Analysis and Interpretation. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2001.
Kottek, Samuel S. Medicine and Hygiene in the Works of Flavius Josephus, Studies in Ancient Medicine 9. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.
North, Robert. "Medicine and Healing in the Old Testament Background." In Medicine in the Biblical Background and Other Essays on the Origins of Hebrew (Analecta Biblica 142; Rome: Pontifical Institute, 2000) 9-34.
Pilch, John J. Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.
Seybold, Klaus and Ulrich B. Mueller. Sickness and Healing, Biblical Encounters. Nashville: Abingdon, 1981.
Thomas, John Christopher. The Devil, Disease, and Deliverance: Origins of Illness in New Testament Thought, Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 13. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
Wells, Louise. The Greek Language of Healing from Homer to the New Testament Times, BZNW 83. Berlin/New York: Walther de Gruyter, 1998.
Wilkinson, John. The Bible and Healing: A Medical and Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1998.
Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart. Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective, Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
Labor
The Basic Income Movement & the Jubilee Vision
Biblical Resources
Anderson, John E. "A Biblical and Economic Analysis of Jubilee Property Provisions." Faith & Economics 46 (2005) 25-41.
Chang, Sang. "Justice of Jubilee in Luke." Reformed World 45:2 (1995) 87-96.
Gnuse, Robert. "Jubilee Legislation in Leviticus: Israel;s Vision of Social Reform." Biblical Theology Bulletin 15:2 (1985) 43-48.
Volschenk, G. J. and Andries G. Van Aarde. "A Social Scientific Study of the Significance of the Jubilee in the New Testament." Hervormde Teologiese Studies 58:2 (2002) 811-837.
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Acts of the Apostles, Sacra Pagina. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1992.
Tigay, Jeffrey H. Deuteronomy, The JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996. There is a second edition from 2003, but our library does not have it.
Income Inequality & the Basic Income Movement
Atkinson, Anthony B. Public Economics in Action: The Basic Income/Flat Tax Proposal, Lindahl Lectures on Monetary and Fiscal Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Barrera, Albino. "What Does Catholic Social Thought Recommend for the Economy? The Economic Common Good as a Path to True Prosperity." In The True Wealth of Nations: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Life (ed. Daniel Rush Finn; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) 13-36.
Cunliffe, J. and G. Erreygers. "'Basic Income? Basic Capital!' Origins and Issues of a Debate." Journal of Political Philosophy 11 (2003) 89–110.
De Vries, Jurjen. "Moral Considerations concerning Income Inequality." In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 49:1 (2015) 9 pages. Doi: 10.4102/ ids.v49i1.1846.
Kinsler, F. Ross and Gloria Kinsler. The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for Life: An Invitation to Personal, Ecclesial, and Social Transformation. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1999.
Schemmell, Christian. "Why Relational Egalitarians Should Care about Distributions." Social Theory and Practice 37:3 (2011) 365-390.
Parijs, Philippe van. "Competing Justifications of Basic Income." In Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform (ed. Philippe van Parijs; New York: Verso, 1992) 3-43.
Widerquist, Karl, Michael Anthony Lewis and Steven Pressman, eds. The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, Alternative Voices in Contemporary Economics. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2005.
Yunker, James A. "The Basic Income Guarantee: A General Equilibrium Evaluation." Basic Income Studies 8:2 (2013) 203-233.
Various. "Jubilee and Debt Abolition (special issue)." Tikkun (Winter 2015).
Westphal, Merold. "Sing Jubilee: How Lev 25 Could Affect Economic and Social Relations in Modern Industrial Society." Other Side 20:3 (1 March 1984) 22-24.
Labor
Day Labor & Just Wages: Kingdom Economics
Biblical Resources
Derrett, J. Duncan M. "Workers in the Vineyard: A Parable of Jesus." Journal of Jewish Studies 25:1 (1974) 64-91.
De Vries, Jurjen. "Moral Considerations concerning Income Inequality." In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 49:1 (2015) 9 pages. Doi: 10.4102/ids.v49i1.1846.
Doyle, B. Rod. "The Place of the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard in Matthew 20:1-16." Australian Biblical Review 42 (1994) 39-58.
Elliott, John Hall. "Matthew 20:1-15: A Parable of Invidious Comparison and Evil Eye Accusation." Biblical Theology Bulletin 22:2 (1992) 52-65.
Eubank, Nathan. "What Does Matthew Say about Divine Recompense?: On the Misuse of the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (20:1-16)." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 35:3 (2013) 242-62.
Ru, G. de. "Conception of Reward in the Teaching of Jesus." Novum testamentum 8:2-4 (1966) 202-222.
Schottroff, Luise. "Human Solidarity and the Goodness of God: The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard." In God of the Lowly: Socio-Historical Interpretations of the Bible (ed. Willy Schottroff and Wolfgang Stegemann; trans. Matthew J. O’Connell; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1984) 129-47.
Vearncombe, Erin K. "Redistribution and Reciprocity: A Socio-Economic Interpretation of the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20.1-15)." Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 8:3 (2010) 199-236.
Biblical Commentaries
Harrington, Daniel J. The Gospel of Matthew, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991.
The Informal Economy
(day labor, immigrant labor, contract labor)
Azuma, Yoshiaki. "Theoretical Studies of Inequality, Predation, and the Informal Sector." Ph.D., Brown University, 2002.
Bartley, Tim and Wade T. Roberts. "Relational Exploitation: The Informal Organization of Day Labor Agencies." Working USA 9:1 (2006) 41-58.
Baum, G. "Beyond the Market: The Growth of the Informal Economy." In Outside the Market: No Salvation? (ed. Dietmar Mieth and Marciano Vidal; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1997) 26-32.
Bernhardt, Annette, Heather Boushey, Laura Dresser and Chris Tilly, eds. The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America's Labor Market, Labor and Employment Relations Association. Champaign, Illinois: Labor and Employment Relations Association (dist. by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York), 2008.
Chowdhury, Sahana Roy. "Inequality and Size of the Informal Sector during Recession: A Note." Metroeconomica 64:4 (2013) 591-7.
Esbeshade, Jill. "The 'Crisis' over Day Labor: The Politics of Visibility and Public Space." Working USA 3:6 (2000) 27-70.
Frasure, Lorrie A. and Michael Jones-Correa. "The Logic of Institutional Interdependency: The Case of Day Laborer Policy in Suburbia." Urban Affairs Review 45:4 (2010) 451-82.
Harriss-White, Barbara. "Inequality at Work in the Informal Economy: Key Issues and Illustrations." International Labour Review 142:4 (2003) 459-69.
Lieberwitz, Risa L. "Contingent Labor: Ideology in Practice." In Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society (ed. Martha Albertson Fineman and Terence Dougherty; Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005) 324-37.
Marcelli, Enrico A. "Unauthorized Mexican Immigration, Day Labour and Other Lower-Wage Informal Employment in California." In The Economics of the Hidden Economy, vol. 2 (ed. Friedrich Schneider; International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 227; Northampton, Massachusetts: Elgar, 2008) 368-80. Originally published in Regional Studies 38:1 (2004) 1-13.
Melendez, Edwin J., M. Anne Visser, Nik Theodore and Abel Valenzuela, Jr. "Worker Centers and Day Laborers' Wages." Social Science Quarterly 95:3 (2014) 835-51.
Purser, Gretchen. "'Still Doin' Time': Clamoring for Work in the Day Labor Industry." Working USA 15:3 (2012) 397-415.
Theodore, Nik , Abel Valenzuela, Jr. and Edwin Melendez. "Worker Centers: Defending Labor Standards for Migrant Workers in the Informal Economy." International Journal of Manpower 30:5 (2009) 422-36.
Labor
Domestic Economy & Women's Work
Biblical Resources
Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Genesis, Feminist Companion to the Bible, first series, 2nd ed. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 1998.
Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Judges, Feminist Companion to the Bible 4, first series, 2nd ed. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 1993.
Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Ruth and Esther, Feminist Companion to the Bible, first series, 2nd ed. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 1999.
Meyers, Carol. "Guilds and Gatherings: Women’s Groups in Ancient Israel." In Realia Dei: Essays in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Edward F. Campbell, Jr. at His Retirement (ed. Prescott H. Williams, Jr. and Theodore Hiebert; SPHS 23; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999) 154-84.
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob. Ruth, Interpretation Commentary. Louisville: John Knox, 1999.
Women in the Labor Market Today
Cahill, Lisa Sowle. "Justice, Gender and the Market." In Outside the Market: No Salvation? (ed. Dietmar Mieth and Marciano Vidal; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1997) 133-42.
Kevane, Michael. Women and Development: How Gender Works. Boulder, Colorado: Lynn Rienner, 2014.
Lieberwitz, Risa L. "Contingent Labor: Ideology in Practice." In Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society (ed. Martha Albertson Fineman and Terence Dougherty; Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005) 324-37.
Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Society at Rome, Key Themes in Ancient History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Glancy, Jennifer A. "The Sexual Use of Slaves: A Reponse to Kyle Harper on Jewish and Christian Porneia." Journal of Biblical Literature 134:1 (2015) 215-29.
Goede, Hendrik. "Constructing Ancient Slavery as Socio-historic Context of the New Testament." Hervormde teologiese studies 69:1 (2013).
Martinsen, Anders. "Was There New Life for the Social Dad in Early Christian Communities?: an Ideological-critical Interpretation of Slavery in teh Household Codes." Journal of Early Christian History 2:1 (2012) 55-69.
Tigay, Jeffrey H. Deuteronomy, The JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996. There is a second edition from 2003, but our library does not have it.
Human Trafficking Today
Glancy, Jennifer A. Slavery As Moral Problem: In the Early Church and Today, Facets. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011.
Harrell, Willie J., Jr. Origins of the African American Jeremiad: The Rhetorical Strategies of Social Protest and Activism, 1760–1861. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011.
Labor
Work & Social Welfare
Biblical Resources
Bartlett, Joseph M. "Bourgeois Right and the Limits of First Phase Communism in the Rhetoric of 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15." The Bible and Critical Theory 8:2 (2012) 36-56.
Briones, David E. "Mutual Brokers of Grace: A Study in 2 Corinthians 1.3-11." New Testament Studies 56 (2010) 536-56.
Datiri, Dachollom C. "Finances in the Pauline Churches: A Socio-exegetical Study of the Funding of Paul's Mission and the Financial Administration of His Congregation." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sheffield, 1996.
Harrison, James R. Paul's Language of Grace in Its Graeco-Roman Context, WUNT 2/172. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.
Hartley, Helenann. "We Worked Night and Day That We Might Not Burden Any of You (1 Thessalonians 2:9): Aspects of the Portrayal of Work in the Letters of Paul, Late Second Temple Judaism, the Graeco-Roman World and Early Christianity." D.Phil. Thesis. University of Oxford, 2005.
Hellerman, Joseph H. Reconstructing Honor in Roman Philippi: Carmen Christi as Cursus Pudorum, SNTSMS 132. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Hock, Ronald F. "Paul’s Tentmaking and the Problem of His Social Class." Journal of Biblical Literature 97:4 (1978) 555-64.
Jewett, Robert. "Tenement Churches and Communal Meals in the Early Church: The Implications of a From-Critical Analysis of 2 Thessalonians 3:10." Biblical Research 38 (1993) 23-43.
Knust, Jennifer Wright. "2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work." In Asceticism and the New Testament (ed. Leif E. Vaage and Vincent L. Wimbush; New York: Routledge, 1999) 255-267.
Punt, Jeremy. "Towards Constructing Paul's Economic Vision on Work." In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 34:3 (2000) 351-72. Doi: 10.4102/ids.v34i3.601.
Redalié, Yann. "'Working With One's Hands': One Model, Many Applications (Acts 20.33; 1 Timothy 5.17; 2 Thessalonians 3.7-10)," trans. Michael D. Thomas, Alexandre Thiltges and Theresa Varney Kennedy. In Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul’s Claim upon Israel's Legacy in Luke and Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters (ed. David P. Moessner et al.; London: T & T Clark, 2012) 282-289.
Russell, Ronald. "The Idle in 2 Thess 3:6-12: An Eschatological or a Social Problem?" New Testament Studies 34:1 (1988) 105-119.
Still, Todd D. "Did Paul Loathe Manual Labor? Revisiting the Work of Ronald F. Hock on the Apostle's Tentmaking and Social Class." Journal of Biblical Literature 125:4 (2006) 781-95.
Walton, Steve. "Paul, Patronage and Pay: What Do We Know about the Apostle's Financial Support?" In Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and Practice (ed. Trevor J. Burke and Brian S. Rosner; Library of New Testament Studies 420; New York: T&T Clark, 2011) 223-233.
Winter, Bruce W. "'If a Man Does Not Wish To Work...': A Cultural and Historical Setting for 2 Thessalonians 3:6-16." Tyndale Bulletin 40:2 (1989) 303-315.
Biblical Commentaries
Aune, David E. 2 Thessalonians, The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Graham, Elaine. "Rethinking the Common Good: Theology and the Future of Welfare." Colloquium 40:2 (2008) 133-56.
Maddalena, Julie A. Mavity. "Floodwaters and the Ticking Clock: The Systematic Oppression and Stigmatization of Poor, Single Mothers in American and Christian Theological Responses." Cross Currents 63:2 (2013) 148-73.
Teacher, Richard. "Tax and Theology." Journal of Markets and Morality 9:1 (2006) 115-25.
Boer, Martinus C. de. "Paul's Use and Interpretation of a Justification Tradition in Galatians 2.15-21." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 28:2 (2005) 189-216.
The Reformers' Views of Work, Justification and Economics
Chester, Stephen J. "It Is No Longer I Who Live: Justification by Faith and Participation in Christ in Martin Luther's Exegesis of Galatians." New Testament Studies 55:3 (2009) 315-37.
Coppins, Wayne. "Paul's Juxtaposition of Freedom and Positive Servitude in 1 Cor 9:19 and Its Reception by Martin Luther and Gerhard Ebeling." Lutherjahrbuch 78 (2011) 277-98.
Freudenberg, Matthias. "Economic and Social Ethics in the Work of John Calvin," trans. Eiwin Scholl. Hervormde teologiese studies 65:1 (2009) [entire issue].
Hart, Ian. "The Teaching of Luther and Calvin about Ordinary Work." Evangelical Quarterly 67 (1995) 35-52, 121-35, 195-209.
Jensen, Roger. "Luther on Work and Vocation." Lutherjahrbuch 76 (2009) 248-50.
Kolb, Robert. "Called to Milk Cows and Govern Kingdoms: Martin Luther's Teaching on the Christian's Vocation." Concordia Journal 39:2 (2013) 133-41.
Veith, Gene Edward, Jr. "Vocation: The Theology of the Christian Life." Journal of Markets and Morality 14:1 (2011) 119-31.
Witt, William G. "Anglican Reflections on Justification by Faith." Anglican Theological Review 95:1 (2013) 57-80.
Balcomb, Anthony. "Of Iron Cages, Double Binds, Epistemological Crises, and Environmental Destruction: The Fragmentation of the Western Worldview and Gestures towards Another Way of Being in the World." Religion and Theology 21:3–4 (2014).
Kingdon, Robert M. "Calvinism and Social Welfare." Calvin Theological Journal 17:2 (1982) 212-30.
McCarraher, Eugene. "The Enchantments of Mammon: Notes Toward a Theological History of Capitalism." Modern Theology 21:3 (2005) 429-61.
Rehmann, Jan. "The Radical Reformation and the Protestant Ethic: A Political Critique of Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 53:1-2 (1999) 71-88.
Profiting the Volk: Economics and Religion in the Third Reich
Biblical Resources
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National Socialism, Labor, Community & the Jews
Cremer, Douglas J. "'To Avoid a New Kulturkampf': The Catholic Workers' Associations and National Socialism in Weimar-Era Bavaria." Journal of Church and State 41:4 (1999) 739-760.
Jimenez, Michael. "Barth, Žižek and the Cold War: Defending The Radical Politics against the Totalitarian Concept." Bible & Critical Theory 9.1-2 (2013).
Johnson, Marshall D. "Power Politics and New Testament Scholarship in the National Socialist Period." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 23:1 (1986) 1-24.
Krell, Marc A. "Fashioning a Neutral Zone: Jewish and Protestant Socialists Challenge Religionswissenschaft in Weimar Germany." In Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities, Encounters, Perspectives (ed. Andreas Gotzmann and Christian Wiese; Leiden: Brill, 2007) 193-223.
Lehnstaedt, Stephan. "Coercion and Incentive: Jewish Ghetto Labor in East Upper Silesia." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 24:3 (2010) 400-430.
Orbach, William W. "Shattering the Shackles of Powerlessness: The Debate Surrounding the Anti-Nazi Boycott of 1933-41." Modern Judaism 2:2 (1982) 149-169.
Scheren, Jos. "Aryanization, Market Vendors, and Peddlers in Amsterdam." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 14:3 (2000) 415-429.
Schreiner, Klaus. "Messianism in the Political Culture of the Weimar Republic." In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998) 311-361.
Lending & Interest
Debt Forgiveness
Biblical Resources
Boer, Martinus C. de. "Ten Thousand Talents: Matthew's Interpretation and Reaction of the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant (Matt 18:23-35)." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 50:2 (1988) 214-32.
Carter, Warren. "Resisting and Imitating the Empire: Imperial Paradigms in Two Matthean Parables." Interpretation 56:3 (2002) 260-272.
Deidun, Thomas. "Parable of the Unmerciful Servant (Mt 18:23-35)." Biblical Theology Bulletin 6:2–3 (1976) 203-224.
Fiensy, David A. "Jesus and Debts: Did He Pray about Them?" Restoration Quarterly 44:4 (2002) 233-9.
Harrill, J. Albert. "The Psychology of Slaves in the Gospel Parables: A Case Study in Social History." Biblische Zeitschrift 55:1 (2011) 63-74.
Landry, David T. "Honor Restored: New Light on the Parable of the Prudent Steward (Luke 16:1-8a)." Journal of Biblical Literature 119:2 (2000) 287-309.
Martinsen, Anders. "God as the Great Parasite?: Ideology and Ethics in Interpretations of the Parables." Journal of Early Christian History 1:2 (2011) 135-151.
Reimer, Ivoni Richter. "The Forgiveness of Debts in Matthew and Luke: For an Economy without Exclusions." In God's Economy: Biblical Studies from Latin America (ed. Ross Kinsler and Gloria Kinsler; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2005) 152-68.a
McLeod, Edward A. Jr. "Deuteronomy 15:1-11." Interpretation 65:2 (2011) 180-182.
Pinfield, Chris. "Christian Perspectives on Money and Credit." Stimulus 17:3 (2009) 26-9.
Varšo, Miroslav. "Interest (Usury) and Its Variations in the Biblical Law Codices." Communio viatorum 50:3 (2008) 323-38.
Medieval Resources
Bader-Saye, Scott. "Disinterested Money: Islamic Banking, Monti di Pietà, and the Possibility of Moral Finance." Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 33:1 (2013) 119-138.
Bretherton, Luke. "'Love Your Enemies': Usury, Citizenship and the Friend-Enemy Distinction." Modern Theology 27:3 (2011) 366-94.
Buch, Joshua. "Neshekh and Tarbit: Usury from Bible to Modern Finance." Jewish Bible Quarterly 33:1 (2005) 13-22.
Cohen, Avinoam. "The Development of the Prohibition against Usury in the Jewish Law during the Mishnaic and Talmudic Periods." M.A. Thesis, Concordia University, 1974.
Meeks, M. Douglas. "The Peril of Usury in the Christian Tradition." Interpretation 65:2 (2011) 128-140.
Pullan, Brian. "Jewish Banks and the Monti di Pietà." In The Jews of Early Modern Venice (ed. Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) 53-72, 259-64.
Todeschini, Giacomo. Franciscan Wealth: From Voluntary Poverty to Market Society, trans. Donatella Melucci. Saint Bonaventure, New York: The Franciscan Institute, Saint Bonaventure University, 2009. (esp. ch. 1)
Valeri, Mark R. "The Christianization of Usury in Early Modern Europe." Interpretation 65:2 (2011) 142-152.
Biblical Commentaries
Tigay, Jeffrey H. Deuteronomy, The JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996. There is a second edition from 2003, but our library does not have it.
Modern Microfinance
Boucher, Megan C. "Ten Talents: The Role of Church-based Programs in the Microfinance Industry." Missiology 40:2 (2012) 167-79.
Crabb, Peter R. and Tim Keller. "A Test of Portfolio Risk in Microfinance Institutions." Faith and Economics 51 (2008) 57-79.
Lybbert, Travis J. "Exploring the Role of Spiritual Capital in Poverty Traps and Microfinance." Faith and Economics 47–48 (2006) 25-39.
Blajer, Piotr. "The Parable of the Pounds or Talents: One Story in Two Different Contexts." Liber Annuus 63 (2013) 275-292.
Braun, Adam F. "Reframing the Parable of the Pounds in Lukan Narrative and Economic Context: Luke 19:11-28." Currents in Theology and Mission 39:6 (2012) 442-448.
Denaux, Adelbert. "The Parable of the Talents/Pounds (Q 19,12-27): A Reconstruction of the Q Text." In Sayings Source Q and the Historical Jesus (ed. Andreas Lindemann; Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2001) 429-460.
Grant, Robert M. "Early Christian Banking." Studia patristica (Berlin: Akademie, 1984) 217-220.
Rohrbaugh, Richard L. "A Peasant Reading of the Parable of the Talents/ Pounds: A Text of Terror?" Biblical Theology Bulletin 23:1 (1993) 32-39.
Sanders, Jack T. "The Parable of the Pounds and Lucan Anti-Semitism." Theological Studies 42:4 (1981) 660-668.
Schultz, Brian. "Jesus as Archelaus in the Parable of the Pounds (Lk 19:11-27)." Novum Testamentum 49:2 (2007) 105-127.
Weinert, Francis D. "Parable of the Throne Claimant (Luke 19:12, 14-15A, 27) Reconsidered." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 39:4 (1977) 505-514.
Biblical Commentaries
Harrington, Daniel J. The Gospel of Matthew, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991
Ribuffo, Leo P. "Jesus Christ as Business Statesman: Bruce Barton and the Selling of Corporate Capitalism." American Quarterly 33:2 (1981) 206-231.
Money
The Morality of Money
Biblical Resources
Oakman, Douglas E. "Money in the Moral Universe of the New Testament." In The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels (ed. Wolfgang Stegemann, Bruce J. Malina and Gerd Theissen; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002) 335-48.
Vaage, Leif E. "The Sermon on the Mount and the Morality of Money." In Theology and Corporate Conscience: Essays in Honor of Frederick Herzog (ed. Frederick Trost; Minneapolis: Kirk House, 1999) 367-84.
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991
Topic
Entry.
Poverty & Consumption
Ascetic Diets: Consuming Less, Desiring More
Biblical Resources
Beed, Clive S. "Jesus and Competition." Faith and Economics 45 (2005) 41-57.
Eubank, Nathan. "Storing up Treasure with God in the Heavens: Celestial Investments in Matthew 6:1-21." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 76:1 (2014) 77-92.
Govender, Shun. "The Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5–7) and the Question of Ethics." In Hammering Swords into Ploughshares: Essays in Honor of Abp Mpilo Desmond Tutu (ed. Buti Tihagale and Itumeleng J. Mosala; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1987) 173-84.
Johnson, Kelly S. "Economic Beatitude, or How I Learned to Stop being Miserable and Love Economic Ethics." In New Wine, New Wineskins: A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic Moral Theology (ed. William C. Mattison, III; New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) 165-180.
Vaage, Leif E. "The Sermon on the Mount and the Morality of Money." In Theology and Corporate Conscience: Essays in Honor of Frederick Herzog (ed. M. Douglas Meeks, Jürgen Moltmann, and Frederick R. Trost; Minneapolis, Minnesota: Kirk House, 1999) 367-384.
--------. "The Sermon on the Mount: An Economic Proposal." In God's Economy: Biblical Studies from Latin America (ed. Ross Kinsler and Gloria Kinsler; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2005) 127-151.
Richie, Cristina S. "The Racial and Economic Theories of James Cone and Martin Luther King Jr., Illuminated by 'The Sermon on the Mount.'" Black Theology 8:1 (2010) 86-106.
Poverty & Consumption
Evangelical Poverty: Begging to Differ
Biblical Resources
Hamm, Dennis. "Acts 3:1-10: The Healing of the Temple Beggar as Lucan Theology." Biblica 67:3 (1986) 305-319.
Speckman, McGlory T. "Beggars and Gospel in Luke–Acts: Preliminary Observations on an Emerging Model in the Light of Recent Developmental Theories." Neotestamentica 31:2 (1997) 309-337.
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Acts of the Apostles, Sacra Pagina. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1992.
Begging Monks in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Caner, Daniel Folger. Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity, Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
The Witness of Poverty & the Catholic Worker Movement
Hollenbach, David. "Corporate Investments, Ethics and Evangelical Poverty: A Challenge to American Religious Orders." Theological Studies 34:2 (1973) 265-74.
Johnson, Kelly S. The Fear of Beggars: Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2007.
Little, Lester K. "Evangelical Poverty, the New Money Economy and Violence." In Poverty in the Middle Ages (ed. David Flood; Franziskanische Forschungen 27; Werl am Westfalia: Dietrich-Colede, 1975) 11-26.
McKanan, Dan. "The Family, the Gospel, and the Catholic Worker." Journal of Religion 87:2 (2007) 153-82.
Munzer, Stephen R. "Beggars of God: The Christian Ideal of Mendicancy." Journal of Religious Ethics 27:2 (1999) 305-330.
Peters, Benjamin T. "'Apocalyptic Sectarianism': The Theology at Work in Critiques of Catholic Radicals." Horizons 39:2 (2012) 208-229.
Phillips, Jacob. "'Being Scorned by One's Own is Perfect Joy': The Strange Case of Dorothy Day." Journal of Religious History 37:4 (2013) 528-40.
Stock, Paul. "Catholic Worker Economics: Subsistence and Resistance Strategies of Householding." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 40:1 (2011) 10-15.
--------. "Consensus Social Movements and the Catholic Worker." Politics and Religion 5:1 (2012) 83-102.
Property
Was Jesus a Communist?
Biblical Resources
Capper, Brian J. "Jesus, Virtuoso Religion, and the Community of Goods." In Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception (ed. Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2009) 60-80.
Chilton, Bruce D. "From Economic Culture to Theological Interpretation: Nazareth, Capernaum, and Jerusalem as Environments of Jesus' Teaching." In Religious Texts and Material Contexts (ed. Jacob Neusner and James F. Strange; Studies in Ancient Judaism; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2001) 63-71.
Draper, Jonathan A. "Christ the Worker: Fact or Fiction?" In Three-fold Cord: Theology, Work and Labour (ed. James R. Cochrane and Gerald O. West; Hilton, South Africa: Cluster, 1991) 121-141.
Miller, George McAnelly. "The Economics of Jesus." The United Brethren Review 9:4 (1898) 289-299.
Hanson, K. C. "The Galilean Fishing Economy and the Jesus Tradition." Biblical Theology Bulletin 27:23 (1997) 99-111.
Hellerman, Joseph H. "Wealth and Sacrifice in Early Christianity: Revisiting Mark's Presentations of Jesus' Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler." Trinity Journal n.s. 21:2 (2000) 143-64.
Longenecker, Bruce W. "Exposing the Economic Middle: A Revised Economy Scale for the Study of Early Urban Christianity." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 31:3 (2009) 243-78.
Moreland, Milton C. "Q and the Economics of Early Roman Galilee." In The Sayings Source Q and the Historical Jesus (ed. Andreas Lindemann; Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2001) 561-75.
Nolan, Albert. "The Roots of Socialism in Biblical Thinking." In Ideologies of Change in South Africa and the Power of the Gospel (Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism): An Interdisciplinary Study-Program of the Misisological Institute, Mapumulo (ed. Klaus Nürnberger; Durban, South Africa: Lutheran, 1979) 233-240.
Robinson, James M. "On Bridging the Gulf from Q to the Gospel of Thomas (or Vice Versa)." In Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism, and Early Christianity (ed. Charles W. Hedrick and Robert Hodgson, Jr.; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1986) 127-175.
Schein, Andrew. "The Vision of Deuteronomy 15 with Regard to Poverty, Socialism, and Capitalism." Journal of Markets & Morality 9:2 (2006) 251-259.
Stanley, Alan P. "The Rich Young Ruler and Salvation." Bibliotheca sacra 163:649 (2006) 46-62.
Theissen, Gerd. "Itinerant Radicalism: The Tradition of Jesus Sayings from the Perspective of the Sociology of Literature." Radical Religion 2:2-3 (1975) 84-93.
Wheaton, Philip E. "Biblical Theses Pertinent to Socialism." Radical Religion 4:3-4 (1979) 26-28.
Wheeler, David Hilton. "Socialism and the New Testament." Methodist Review 78 (1896) 865-873.
Biblical Commentaries
Donahue, John R. and Daniel J. Harrington. The Gospel of Mark, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2002.
Harrington, Daniel J. The Gospel of Matthew, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991
Blomberg, Craig L. "Neither Capitalism nor Socialism: A Biblical Theology of Economics." Journal of Markets & Morality 15:1 (2012) 207-225.
Davis, Megan V. "Teaching Social Justice in the Corporate University: Deploying the Teachings of Jesus and Marx in an Era of Unchecked Global Capitalism." Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 37:1 (2008) 20-25.
Kirova, Milena. "The Early Fathers of Marxist Feminism and the Holy Book." In Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible (ed. Roland Boer and Jorunn Økland; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008) 26-46.
McMahon, Christopher. "Consuming Jesus: Saving Soteriology in a Market-Driven Culture." Downside Review 128:453 (2010) 269-283.
Moreira, Alberto da Silva and Paul Burns. "The Dangerous Memory of Jesus Christ in a Post-Traditional Society." In Faith in a Society of Instant Gratification (ed. Maureen Junker-Kenny and Mikoós Tomka; London: SCM, 1999) 39-48.
Parsons, Howard L. "The Commitments of Jesus and Marx: Resources for the Challenge and Necessity of Cooperation." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 22:3 (1985) 454-473.
Popular Pieces
Sölle, Dorothee. "Moses, Jesus and Marx." Witness 77 (1994) 16-17.
--------. "Moses, Jesus, Marx." Other Side 28:2 (1992) 22-26.
Sölle, Dorothee and Tony Rhodin. "Moses, Jesus, and Marx: Utopians in Search of Justice." Cross Currents 42:4 (1992) 528-535.
Dube, Zorodzai. "Welcoming Outsiders: The Nascent Jesus Community as a Locus of Hospitality and Equality (Mk 9:33-42; 10:2-16)." In die Skriflig 48:1 (2014).
Kyrtatas, Demetres I. "Modes and Relations of Productio." In Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches (ed. Anthony J. Blasi, Jean Duhaime and Paul-André Turcotte; Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira, 2002) 529-54.
Stotts, Jack L. "'By What Authority...?' (Matthew 21:23): An Unscholarly Foray into Acts 2:44-45; 4:32-35." In Reformed Faith and Economics (ed. Robert L. Stivers; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1989) 3-13.
Walton, Steve. "Primitive Communism in Acts? Does Acts Present the Community of Goods (2:44-45; 4:32-35) as Mistaken?" Evangelical Quarterly 80:2 (2008) 99-111.
Wheeler, David Hilton. "Socialism and the New Testament." Methodist Review 78 (1896) 865-873.
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Acts of the Apostles, Sacra Pagina. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1992.
Tigay, Jeffrey H. Deuteronomy, The JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996. There is a second edition from 2003, but our library does not have it.
Christianity & Socialism
Blomberg, Craig L. "Neither Capitalism nor Socialism: A Biblical Theology of Economics." Journal of Markets & Morality 15:1 (2012) 207-225.
Finger, Reta Halteman. "Cultural Attitudes in Western Christianity toward the Community of Goods in Acts 2 and 4." Mennonite Quarterly Review 78:2 (2004) 235-70.
Pimentel Torres, Franklyn. "The Practice of Christian Communities at the Beginning of a New Millennium: A Current Community Reading of Acts 2." In God's Economy: Biblical Studies from Latin America (ed. Ross Kinsler and Gloria Kinsler; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2005) 202-219.
Schein, Andrew. "The Vision of Deuteronomy 15 with Regard to Poverty, Socialism and Capitalism." Journal of Markets & Morality 9:2 (2006) 251-9.
Siddiqui, Shamin. "Savings, Investment, and Some Distributional Aspects of a Sharing Economy Based on Islamic Financial Principles." Ph.D., Temple University, 1989.
Apocalyptic Economics: Montanist Redistributions of Goods
Biblical Resources
Entry
Entry
Biblical Commentaries
Harrington, Wilfrid J. Revelation, Sacra Pagina 16. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1993.
The Montanists & Their Redistributions
Archaeological Evidence
Heine, Ronald E., trans. The Montanist Oracles and Testimonia, NAPSPMS 14. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1989.
Lampe, Peter. "The Phrygian Archaeological Surface Survey Project of the University of Heidelberg and the Discovery of Pepouza and Tymion: A Preliminary Report." Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 6:1 (2002) 117-20.
Apollonius. "Concerning Montanism," trans. B. P. Pratten. In The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, the Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages (ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; ANF 8; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1994; original, Christian Literature Publishing Company) 775-6.
Eusebius. "The History of the Church 5.14-19," trans. G. A. Williamson, and "Appendixes: D. Heretics." In Eusebius, The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine (Harmondsworth, England: Dorset, 1965) 217-26, 420-21.
Kraemer, Ross Shepard, trans. "92–97." In Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook (ed. Ross S. Kraemer; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) 259-68. Originally published as Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988).
Secondary Literature
Beskow, Per. "Mission, Trade and Emigration in the Second Century." Svensk exegetisk årsbok 35 (1971) 104-114.
Klawiter, Frederick C. "The New Prophecy in Early Christianity: The Origin, Nature and Development of Montanism, A.D. 165–220." Ph. D. Dissertation; Chicago, 1975.
Kreidler, Mary Jane. "Montanism and Monasticism: Charism and Authority in the Early Church." Studia Patristica 18 (1989) 229-34.
--------. "Prophets, Economics, and the Rites of Man: Some Issues of Authority in Early Christian Tradition." In Revelation, Literature, and Community in Late Antiquity (ed. Philippa Townsend and Moulie Vidas; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011) 43-63.
Williams, Daniel H. "The Origins of the Montanist Movement: A Sociological Analysis." Religion 19:4 (1989) 331-51.
Property
Monastic Sharing of Resources
Biblical Resources
Entry
Entry
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Acts of the Apostles, Sacra Pagina. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1992.
Fernández Roca, Javier. "Monks and Businessmen in Catalonia: The Benedictines of Montserrat (1900–1936)." Enterprise & Society 11:2 (2010) 242-274.
Habakkuk, H. J. "The Market for Monastic Property, 1539-1603." Economic History Review 10:3 (1958) 362-380.
Hatcher, John, A. J. Piper and David Stone. "Monastic Mortality: Durham Priory, 1395–1529." Economic History Review 59:4 (2006) 667-687.
Linge, David E. "Mysticism, Poverty and Reason in the Thought of Meister Eckhart." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 46:4 (1978) 465-488. Eckhart was a Dominican, not a Benedictine, but this source might help with medieval teaching on poverty and possibly on biblical interpretation
Mate, Mavis E. "The Impact of War on the Economy of Canterbury Cathedral Priory, 1294-1340." Speculum 57:4 (1982) 761-778.
Newman, Christine M. "Employment on the Priory of Durham Estates, 1494-1519: The Priory as an Employer." Northern History 36:1 (2000) 43-58.
Property
Mutual Aid in Mennonite & Anabaptist Communities
Biblical Resources
Finger, Reta Halteman. "Cultural Attitudes in Western Christianity toward the Community of Goods in Acts 2 and 4." Mennonite Quarterly Review 78:2 (2004) 235-70.
Zimmerman, John. "Yoder's Jesus and Economics: The Economics of Jesus or the Economics of Luke?" Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:3 (2003) 437-50.
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Acts of the Apostles, Sacra Pagina. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1992.
Missions as Evangelical NGOs
Burkholder, J. L. "The Economic Problem for Mennonites." In Anabaptist/ Mennonite Faith and Economics (ed. Calvin Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner; Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies; Waterloo, Ontario: Conrad Grebel College 1994) 359-372.
Burkholder, Jared S. et al. The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2012.
Ewert, Norm. "Justice, Charity and Mennonite Economics." In Anabaptist/ Mennonite Faith and Economics (ed. Calvin Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner; Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies; Waterloo, Ontario: Conrad Grebel College 1994) 305-320.
González, Antonio and Joseph Owens. "Anabaptist Hermeneutics and Theological Education." Mennonite Quarterly Review 84:2 (2010) 207-228.
Hecht, Al. "Mennonites and the Canadian Society: A Financial Well-Being Comparison." In Anabaptist/ Mennonite Faith and Economics (ed. Calvin Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner; Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies; Waterloo, Ontario: Conrad Grebel College 1994) 237-254.
Heidebrecht, Doug. "People of the Book: The Significance of Mennonite Brethren Biblicism and Hermeneutics." Direction 40:2 (2011) 219-231.
Mathies, David Kratz. "Reading the Moral Law: A Hermeneutical Approach to Religious Moral Epistemology." Conrad Grebel Review 23:3 (2005) 74-84.
Redekop, Calvin W. and Benjamin W. Redekop. Entrepreneurs in the Faith Community: Profiles of Mennonites in Business. Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald, 1996.
Redekop, Calvin. "Mennonites, Work and Economics." In Anabaptist/ Mennonite Faith and Economics (ed. Calvin Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner; Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies; Waterloo, Ontario: Conrad Grebel College 1994) 279-302.
Regehr, Walter. "Mennonite Economic Life and the Paraguayan Experience." In Anabaptist/ Mennonite Faith and Economics (ed. Calvin Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner; Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies; Waterloo, Ontario: Conrad Grebel College 1994) 127-152.
Shenk, Wilbert R. By Faith Whey Went Out: Mennonite Missions, 1850-1999. Elkhart, Indiana: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2000.
Siemens, Robert. "Mennonites and Economics: A Cultural Interpretation." In Anabaptist/Mennonite Faith and Economics (ed. Calvin Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner; Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies; Waterloo, Ontario: Conrad Grebel College 1994) 333-358.
Snyder, Arnold. "Anabaptist Spirituality and Economics." In Anabaptist/ Mennonite Faith and Economics (ed. Calvin Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner; Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies; Waterloo, Ontario: Conrad Grebel College 1994) 3-18.
Taxes
Render unto Caesar: What Level of Taxation is Just?
Biblical Resources
Cadwallader, Alan H. "In Go(l)d We Trust: Literary and Economic Currency Exchange in the Debate over Caesar's Coin (Mark 12:13-17)." Biblical Interpretation 14:5 (2006) 486-507.
Stansell, Gary. "Gifts, Tributes and Offerings." In The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels (ed. Wolfgang Stegemann, Bruce J. Malina and Gerd Theissen; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002) 349-64.
Biblical Commentaries
Donahue, John R. and Daniel J. Harrington. The Gospel of Mark, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2002.
Harrington, Daniel J. The Gospel of Matthew, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991
Taxation to Support Social Welfare
Trade & Commerce
The Condemnation of Roman Commerce in Revelation 18
Callahan, Allen Dwight. "Apocalypse as Critique of Political Economy: Some Notes on Revelation 18." Horizons in Biblical Theology 21:1 (1999) 46-65.
--------. "Babylon Boycott: The Book of Revelation." Interpretation 63:1 (2009) 48-54.
Carey, Greg. "A Man's Choice: Wealth Imagery and the Two Cities in the Book of Revelation." In Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John (ed. Amy-Jill Levine and Maria Mayo Robbins;Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings 13; New York: T & T Clark, 2009) 147-58.
Carter, Warren. "Accommodating 'Jezebel' and Withdrawing John: Negotiating Empire in Revelation Then and Now." Interpretation 63:1 (2009) 32-47.
Decock, Paul B. "Hostility against the Wealth of Babylon: Revelation 17:1–19:10." In Animosity, the Bible, and Us: Some European, North American, and South African Perspectives (ed. John T. Fitzgerald, Fika Van Rensburg and Herrie F. Van Rooy; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009) 263-86.
Diehl, Judith A. "'Babylon': Then, Now and 'Not Yet': Anti-Roman Rhetoric in the Book of Revelation." Currents in Biblical Research 11:2 (2013) 168-95.
Glancy, Jennifer A. and Stephen D. Moore. "How Typical a Roman Prostitute is Revelation's 'Great Whore'?" Journal of Biblical Literature 130:3 (2011) 551-69.
Hylen, Susan E. "The Power and Problem of Revelation 18: The Rhetorical Function of Gender." In Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible (ed. Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 205-219.
Kim, Jean. "'Uncovering Her Wickedness': An Inter(con)textual Reading of Revelation 17 from a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 73 (1999) 61-81.
Koester, Craig R. "The Message to Laodicea and the Problem of Its Local Context: A Study of the Imagery in Rev 3.14-22." New Testament Studies 49:3 (2003) 407-424.
--------. "Roman Slave Trade and the Critique of Babylon in Revelation 18." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 70:4 (2008) 766-86.
Luan, Eileen Poh Chu. "The Acquisition and Use of Wealth: Some Reflections from Revelation 18." Jian Dao 41 (2014) 255-98.
Macaskill, Grant. "Critiquing Rome's Economy: Revelation and Its Reception in the Apostolic Fathers." In Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception (ed. Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2009) 243-59.
Marshall, John W. "Gender and Empire: Sexualized Violence in John's Anti-Imperial Apocalypse." In Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John (ed. Amy-Jill Levine and Maria Mayo Robbins;Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings 13; New York: T & T Clark, 2009) 17-32.
Míguez, Néstor O. "Economics and Abundant Life in New Testament Apocalypticism." In God's Economy: Biblical Studies from Latin America (ed. Ross Kinsler and Gloria Kinsler; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2005) 220-40.
Moore, Stephen D. "Metonymies of Empire: Sexual Humiliation and Gender Masquerade in the Book of Revelation." In Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R. S. Sugirtharajah (ed. Tat-siong Benny Liew; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2009) 71-97.
Rossing, Barbara R. "City Visions, Feminine Figures and Economic Critique: A Sapiential Topos in the Apocalypse." In Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism (ed. Benjamin G. Wright III and Lawrence M. Wills; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005) 181-96.
Taylor, Deborah Furlan. "The Monetary Crisis in Revelation 13:17 and the Provenance of the Book of Revelation." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 71:3 (2009) 580-96.
Biblical Commentaries
Harrington, Wilfrid J. Revelation, Sacra Pagina 16. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1993.
Fair Trade & Commerce with Integrity
Callahan, Allen Dwight. "American Babylon: Days in the Life of an African-American Idea." In The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times (ed. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jonathan A. Draper; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008) 67-82.
--------. "Revelation 18: Notes on Effective History and the State of Colombia." In Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ed. Shelly Matthews, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge and Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2003) 269-85.
Ramírez Fernández, Dagoberto. "The Judgment of God on the Multinationals: Revelation 18." In Subversive Scriptures: Revolutionary Readings of the Christian Bible in Latin America (ed. and trans. Leif E. Vaage; Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1997) 75-100.
Wealth, the 1% & Social Privilege
Social Rank & Partiality
Biblical Resources
Batten, Alicia. "The Degraded Poor and the Greedy Rich: Exploring the Language of Poverty and Wealth in James." In The Social Sciences and Biblical Translation (ed. Dietmar Neufeld; Symposimu Series 41; Atlanta: Society of BIblical Literature, 2008) 65-77.
Elliott, Neil. "Diagnosing an Allergic Reaction: The Avoidance of Marx in Pauline Scholarship." The Bible and Critical Theory 8:2 (2012).
Grimshaw, James P. "Luke's Market Exchange District: Decentering Luke's Rich Urban Center." Semeia 86 (1999) 33-51.
Hollenbach, Paul. "Defining Rich and Poor Using Social Sciences." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 26 (1987) 50-63.
Kamell, Mariam J. "The Economics of Humility: The Rich and the Humble in James." In Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception (ed. Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2009) 157-75.
Meggitt, Justin J. Paul, Poverty and Survival. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998.
Theissen, Gerd. "The Social Structure of Pauline Communities: Some Critical Remarks on J. J. Meggitt, Paul, Poverty and Survival." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 84 (2001) 65-84.
Hartin, Patrick J. James, Sacra Pagina Commentary 14. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2003.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary 3. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991.
Perkins, Pheme. First Corinthians, Paideia. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2012.
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Wealth, the 1% & Social Privilege
Wealth over Work: Patrimonial Capitalism & Justice
Biblical Resources
Bock, Darrell L. "Jesus, the Poor, and Mammon: A Look at Values from Luke-Acts." In The Bible and the American Future (ed. Robert Jewett, with Wayne L. Alloway Jr. and John G. Lacey; Eugene, Oregon: Cascade, 2009) 162-80.
Calef, Susan A. "'Prophet Margins' in the Economy of Salvation: Having, Being, and Doing the Gospel of Luke." Journal of Religion and Society 10 (2014).
Domeris, William. "Cellars, Wages and Gardens: Luke's Accommodation for Middle-Class Christians." Hervormde Teologiese Studies 49:1–2 (1993) 85-100.
Pickett, Raymond. "'You Cannot Serve God and Mammon': Economic Relations and Human Flourishing in Luke." Dialog 52:1 (2013) 37-46.
Biblical Commentaries
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991
Patrimonial Capitalism & Income Inequality
Beed, Clive S. and Cara Beed. "Biblical Warnings to 'The Rich' and the Challenge of Contemporary Affluence." Journal of Markets & Morality 15:2 (2012) 363-390.
Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap, 2014.
Dollar, Creflo. The Holy Spirit, Your Financial Advisor: God's Plan for Debt-Free Money Management. New York: FaithWords, 2013.
--------. You're Supposed to Be Wealthy: How to Make Money, Live Comfortably, and Build an Inheritance for Future Generations. New York: FaithWords, 2014.
Kenneth and Gloria Copeland
Copeland, Gloria. God's Will Is Prosperity. Tulsa: Harrison House, 1978.
Copeland, Kenneth. The Laws of Prosperity. Fort Worth: Kenneth Copland Publications, 1974.
Hunter, Charles. God's Condition for Prosperity. Kingwood, Texas: Hunter, 1984.
Lindsay, Gordon. God's Master Key to Success and Prosperity. Dallas: Voice of Healing, 1959.
Matthew, S. Money Matters, School of the Word Study Series. Bradford: Harvestime, 1987.
Savelle, Jerry. Living in Divine Prosperity. Tulsa: Harrison House, 1982.
--------. "True Prosperity—What Is It?" Christian Life 45 (1983–1984) 47, 49.
Secondary Literature
Akper, Godwin I. "Prosperity Gospel: A Case Study of Benue State in North-Central Nigeria." Journal of Reformed Theology 1:1 (2007) 41-9.
Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena. "Anointing through the Screen: Neo-Pentecostalism and Televised Christianity in Ghana." Studies in World Christianity 11:1 (2005) 9-28.
Barron, Bruce. The Health and Wealth Gospel. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity, 1987.
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--------. "Conservative Protestantism and the World Order: The Faith Movement in the United States and Sweden." Sociology of Religion 54:4 (1993) 353-73.
--------. "The Faith Movement: A Global Religious Culture?" Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3:1 (2002) 3-19.
--------. The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Dada, Adekunle Oyinloye. "Prosperity Gospel in Nigerian Context: A Medium of Social Transformation or an Impetus for Delusion?" Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies 36:1-2 (2004) 95-107.
Gifford, P. "Prosperity: A New and Foreign Element in African Christianity." Religion 20 (1990) 373-88.
Griffith, Marie R. "Body Salvation: New Thought, Father Divine, and the Feast of Material Pleasures." Religion and American Culture 11:2 (2001) 119-53.
Harrison, Milmon F. Righteous Riches: The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African American Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Hasu, Paivi. "World Bank and Heavenly Bank in Poverty and Prosperity: The Case of Tanzanian Faith Gospel." Review of African Political Economy 33:110 (2006) 679-92.
Hladky, Kathleen M. "I Double-Dog Dare You in Jesus’ Name! Claiming Christian Wealth and the American Prosperity Gospel." Religion Compass 6:1 (2012) 82-96.
Hollinger, Dennis P. "Enjoying God Forever: An Historical/Sociological Profile of the Health and Wealth Gospel." Trinity Journal n.s. 9:2 (1988) 131-49. Reprinted as "Enjoying God Forever: An Historical/Sociological Profile of the Health and Wealth Gospel in the USA" in Religion and Power, Decline and Growth (ed. P. Gee and J. Fulton; London: BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group, 1991) 147-63.
Hunt, Stephen. "'Winning Ways': Globalisation and the Impact of the Health and Wealth Gospel." Journal of Contemporary Religion 15:3 (2000) 331-47.
Jackson, R. "Prosperity Theology and the Faith Movement." Themelios 15:1 (1987) 19-24.
Johnson, B. "Do Holiness Sects Socialise in Dominant Values?" Social Forces 39 (1961) 301-316.
Jung, Jong Hyun and Scott Schieman. "’Practical Divine Influence’: Socioeconomic Status and Belief in the Prosperity Gospel." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51:4 (2012) 738-56.
Kaiser, W. C., Jr. "The Old Testament Case for Material Blessings and the Contemporary Believer." Trinity Journal n.s. 9:2 (1988) 151-70.
Kennebrew, Jim. "The Gospel of Affluence." Mid-American Theological Journal 9 (1985) 49-68.
King, Paul. Only Believe: Examining the Origins and Development of Classic and Contemporary "Word of Faith" Theologies. Tulsa: Word and Spirit Press, 2009.
MacGregor, Kirk R. "The Word-Faith Movement: A Theological Conflation of the Nation of Islam and Mormonism?" Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75:1 (2007) 87-120.
Machado, Daisy L. "Capitalism, Immigration, and the Prosperity Gospel." Anglican Theological Review 92:4 (2010) 723-30.
Malesic, Jonathan. "Is Some Form of Secularism the Best Foundation for Christian Engagement in Public Life?" Journal of Markets and Morality 13:2 (2010) 347-53.
Marshall, R. "'Power in the Name of Jesus': Social Transformation and Pentecostalism in Western Nigeria 'Revisited.'" In Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth Century Africa (ed. T. Ranger and O. Vaugn; London: Macmillan, 1991) 129-44.
Marti, Gerardo. Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church. Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Maxwell, D. "'Delivered from the Spirit of Poverty?' Pentecostalism, Prosperity and Modernity in Zimbabwe." Journal of Religion in Africa 28:3 (1998) 350-73.
McConnell, D. R. A Different Gospel: Biblical and Historical Insights into the Word of Faith Movement, updated ed. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1995.
Mitchem, S. Y. Name It and Claim It? Prosperity Preaching in the Black Church. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2007.
Noell, Edd S. "Delight, Danger, and Duty: The Good of Affluence and Current Research on Wealth in the Gospels." Faith & Economics 40 (2002) 14-21.
Okwori, E. M. Godliness for Gain: A Theological Evaluation of the Nigerian Version of the Prosperity Gospel. Jos, Nigeria: Tony Kes Press, 1995.
Peterson, Daniel J. "We Preach Christ Crucified: Rejecting the Prosperity Gospel and Responding to Feminist Criticism Using Luther’s Second Theology of the Cross." Dialog 48:2 (2009) 194-201.
Sarles, Ken L. "A Theological Evaluation of the Prosperity Gospel." Bibliotheca Sacra 143:572 (1986) 329-52.
Schmidt, T. E. "Burden, Barrier, Blasphemy: Wealth in Matt 6:33, Luke 14:33, and Luke 16:15." Trinity Journal n.s. 9:2 (1988) 171-89.
Sødal, Helje Kringlebotn. "’Victor, Not Victim’: Joel Osteen’s Rhetoric of Hope." Journal of Contemporary Religion 25:1 (2010) 37-50.
Togarasei, Lovemore. "The Pentecostal Gospel of Prosperity in African Contexts of Poverty: An Appraisal." Exchange 40:4 (2011) 336-50.
Wright, Christopher J. H., John Alembillah Azumah and J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu. "Lausanne Theology Working Group Statement on the Prosperity Gospel." Evangelical Review of Theology 34:2 (2010) 99-102.
Related Secondary Literature, but not as important
Fuller, Leanna K. "Perfectionism and Shame: Exploring the Connections." Journal of Pastoral Theology 18:1 (2008) 44-60.
Miller, Christine and Nathan Carlin. "Joel Osteen as Cultural Selfobject: Meeting the Needs of the Group Self and Its Individual Members in and from the Largest Church in America." Pastoral Psychology 59:1 (2010) 27-51.
