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Alan Kahan points to the fact that Jesus was a poor man as emblematic of "a revolution in the way poverty and wealth were viewed." [42] This is not to say that Christian attitudes borrowed nothing from Christianity's Greco-Roman and Jewish precursors. Kahan acknowledges that, "Christian theology absorbed those Greco-Roman attitudes towards ...
It is sometimes summarized by the adage or platitude "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer". [1] [2] Also termed the "Matthew effect of accumulated advantage", taking its name from the Parable of the Talents in the biblical Gospel of Matthew, it was coined by sociologists Robert K. Merton and Harriet Zuckerman in 1968. [3] [4]
Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, seed-faith gospel, Faith movement, or Word-Faith movement) [1] is a religious belief among some Charismatic Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive scriptural confession, and giving to ...
Albert Nolan OP (2 September 1934 – 17 October 2022) was a South African Catholic priest, theologian writer and member of the Dominican Order. [1] He is well known for his book, Jesus Before Christianity, first published in 1976, in which he presented an account of Jesus' radical involvement in the struggle for full humanity in the context of first-century Judea.
The Rise of Christianity (subtitled either A Sociologist Reconsiders History or How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries, depending on the edition), is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity, from a small movement in Galilee and Judea at the time of Jesus to the majority ...
When a lot of the world's wealthiest people say they "started out with nothing," the reality is usually a bit different. If you take a closer look, you'll find that many of today's billionaires and...
"Jesus - An Interpretation" Chapter 1 is Thurman’s interpretation of Jesus. Thurman analyzes Jesus as a “religious subject rather than a religious object” (5). [1] He continues to say that one must consider the society Jesus had lived in and how that society might shed light on the relationship between Jesus’ teachings and the disinherited and/or underprivileged.
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