Wealth and Poverty in the New Testament and Its World
Because terms like “wealth” and “poverty” derive their meaning from the normative cultural values within which they occur, any application of New Testament texts which fails to take cultural differences seriously can only misrepresent those texts.
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1987
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In: |
Interpretation
Year: 1987, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 354-367 |
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Summary: | Because terms like “wealth” and “poverty” derive their meaning from the normative cultural values within which they occur, any application of New Testament texts which fails to take cultural differences seriously can only misrepresent those texts. |
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ISSN: | 2159-340X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Interpretation
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/002096438704100403 |