Fulfilling what he has called a “grave responsibility, ” Pope Francis has often addressed the issue of economic inequality and the use of personal, corporate, and national wealth. Francis’s teaching is rooted in the teaching of Jesus, preserved in the pages of the New Testament. The Bible has more to say about the use of wealth than it does about other moral issues of our day, yet this teaching seldom enters into the conscience of believers. In
Wealth, Wages, and the Wealthy: New Testament Insight for Preachers and Teachers Fr. Raymond F. Collins redresses this issue and provides the reader with a careful examination not only of what Jesus said about wealth but also of what each of the New Testament authors wrote about the topic.
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Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Chapter 1: Paul
Chapter 2: Paul’s Letters
Chapter 3: Mark
Chapter 4: Matthew
Chapter 5: Luke
Chapter 6: Acts
Chapter 7: The Deutero-Pauline Texts
Chapter 8: The Catholic Epistles
Chapter 9: The Johannine Corpus
Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography of Scriptural Commentaries
Bibliography
Scripture Index
Index of Classical, Jewish, and Patristic Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Topics
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Raymond F. Collins is a Roman Catholic priest and a New Testament scholar. Most of his academic career was spent at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, the world’s oldest Catholic university, and at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he taught and served as the dean of the School of Religious Studies. Among his twenty books are major commentaries on Paul’s First and Second Letters to the Corinthians and the Pastoral Epistles, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus.