Forceful Stewardship and Neglectful Wealth: A Contemporary Reading of Luke 16
Reading Luke 16 as a literary unity brings the two parables (the Rogue Steward and the Rich Man and Lazarus) together in such a way that the fixity expressed in the latter serves as a perfect foil to the decisive action, in the matter of wealth, taken in the former. The intermediate sayings (vv 14–1...
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| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1988
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Pacifica
Year: 1988, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14 |
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| Summary: | Reading Luke 16 as a literary unity brings the two parables (the Rogue Steward and the Rich Man and Lazarus) together in such a way that the fixity expressed in the latter serves as a perfect foil to the decisive action, in the matter of wealth, taken in the former. The intermediate sayings (vv 14–18) serve this overall instruction about wealth, with v 16 as pivot of the whole: the Rogue Steward who takes ‘violent’ action against his own inclination is ultimately the faithful steward in an unequal world. |
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| ISSN: | 1839-2598 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pacifica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1030570X8800100102 |