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- Title: Economic Ideas in the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament (Critical Essay)
- Author : History of Economics Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Economics,Books,Business & Personal Finance,Finance,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 311 KB
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Introduction The economic thought of proto-Christianity has been under-researched, given its influence on subsequent economic philosophies and theories. This is perhaps particularly so for Pauline economic ideas. Even within theology, studies of Paul's economic ethics are few and far between. The aim of this paper is to fill a gap in the literature on earliest Christianity, by presenting a brief overview of Paul's economic ideas. The need for such a study is demonstrated, not least, by the importance of the Pauline movement and its works to the earliest Christians. This is perhaps best indicated by the fact that thirteen of the twenty-seven New Testament works are from the Pauline school (Chamblin 1993, p. 27), although only seven of these are widely recognised as being genuinely Pauline in nature, rather than emanating from his 'school' after his death (1). Equally, the material itself merits study, as Georgi (1992, p. 141) has indicated: 'Biblical studies, theology, and the church at large are unaware that the authentic writings of Paul contain some of the most elaborate literary reflections on the flow of money surviving from the ancient world'.