Join Doug Stuart and Cody Cook in reading The Maker Versus the Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics, by Jerry Bowyer
Book Description
Theologians virtually ignore the economic commentary in the Bible. In the few cases where it gets any attention, economic commentary in the Gospels and other New Testament writings tend to lapse into simplistic class warfare nostrums. Liberation theologians import Marxism wholesale (but they try to sell it retail) into theology. Academic historians of 1st Century Palestine/Judea have been pushing an account of a poor peasant Jesus leading a poor peasant’s revolt based on the idea of mass displaced workers in Lower Galilee. The problem is the actual archeological findings paint a picture of an industrious and entrepreneurial economy during Jesus’s time there. Reading the Gospels in light of archeology and history, which are now available to us, gives us a very different picture than the one you’ve been told regarding what Jesus taught about work and money.
135 pages
Book Club Details
- $25 to join (is actually a donation to LCI)
- Cost of the book itself (Amazon link)
- 4 one-hour discussion sessions (see dates below)
Discussion Session Dates
All session times 6-7pm EST
- June 6: pages xi–34
- June 13: pages 35–76
- June 20: pages 77–108
- June 27: pages 109–136