Missional Economics Biblical Justice and Christian Formation

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Transformation for life ....5 Romans 12:1-2: The need for transformation ....5 Biblical economic formation: Behavior and reasoning ....12 For further reflection ...17 2. Biblical formation in missional perspective ...19 Mission, divine purposiveness and the church ....21 Introduction to missional hermeneuties ....24 Missional hermeneuties in the present study ....30 Asking missionally located questions ...34 For further reflection ....37 3. Jesus`s mission and divine blessing ....39 Jesus`s mission statement ...39 The beatitudes ....45 For further reflection ....50 4. The exodus: The God of liberation provides a way out ....52 The exodus ....54 Social location and the exodus ...59 Constrasting stories ...60 For further reflection ...64 5. Economic formation in the Decalogue ...65 God and people in covenantal relationship ...67 Law, understood positively ....68 Choose life ....70 Introduction to the ten commandments ...72 The decalogue (exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:6-21) ....73 For further reflection ....85 6. Economic formation in the covenantal legal codes ...87 General socioeconomic realities in ancient israel ....89 Israelite laws protecting widows. Orphans and resident aliens ...90 Gleaning laws: Food for the poor ....96 Laws concerning collateral and loans ...100 The sabbatical and debt remission ...105 The jubilee ...111 Concluding reflections: justice from the bottom up ....117 For further reflection ....119 7.Prophetic formation for economic reasoning ...120 Amos ...121 Isaiah 1 ....125 Micah 6 ....131 For further reflection ...136 8. Creation and its discontents ...137 Literary genre and genesis 1-3 ...137 Stories of creation: The biblical and the babylonian ...141 The second biblical creation story ..146 Abundance, Adam and eve and us ...151 For further reflection ....153 9. The kingdom`s economy of abundance ...154 What must i do to inherit eternal life ....154 Camels and the eyes of needles ...159 Kingdom abundance ...165 For further reflection ....169 10. Formation for economic reasoning in matthew ...171 The sermon on the mount: Renewing the covenant ..171 Matthew 25:31-46: the sheep and the goats ...185 Concluding reflections on material from Matthew`s Gospel ....196 For further reflection ....196 11. Kingdom reversals and economic reasoning in Luke .....198 The parable of the ywo lost sons and their father ...198 A response to grumbling by the pharisees and scribes ...199 The rich man and lazarus ...200 Zacchaeu, the tax collector ...206 Concluding reflections ...213 For further reflection ....214 12. Economic reasoning and faith in the context of divine abundance ....216 All things in common : unity and covenantal abundance in acts ....216 The Pauline collection and the corinthians ...220 Faith and works ...229 Missional reasoning in light of James 2 ....235 For further reflection ....236 13. Missional hermeneuties, transformed reasoning and choosing life ....238 A covenantal context ....242 Human dignity ....243 Liberation for the oppressed ....243 Living intothe abundance of the kingdom ....244