On Being Rich and Poor

  • Year 2014
  • Type Commentary
  • Genre biblical studies
  • Tradition Reformed
  • Original language French

For For readers who want Ellul's Bible teaching on wealth and poverty, from Amos and James; not a technical commentary.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

Transcribed Bible lectures on Amos and James, about wealth, poverty and the modern economy.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 5 of 5
  • Experiential 2 of 5
  • Sociological 4 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A volume of Ellul's Bible lectures on the prophet Amos and the Epistle of James, transcribed from the original recordings and translated by Willem H. Vanderburg, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2014 with the subtitle Christianity in a Time of Economic Globalization. It follows On Freedom, Love, and Power. Ellul sets the principles of Christian life in these texts against the economic practices of the modern world.

Catalog IDW.RKJ84K.3

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