Tag: household codes
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Theologians & Economists: “Family Writ Large” and the Information Gap
[Series Index] Without a doubt, family is the Bible's most pervasive metaphor for the people of God. We are all children of Abraham. We are the household of God, where God is the paterfamilias. We are all brothers and sisters in Christ, with God as the head of the household. Families are face-to-face communities. People…
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Household: Fictive Family in 1 Peter
We saw a reference to the Church as God’s living temple in Ephesians 2:21. The first ten verses of 1 Peter elaborate a little more on this imagery. 1 Peter 2:1-10 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk,…
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Household of God
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. (Eph 2:19-20, NRSV) Oikos tou Theou, "household of God." I have done revisioning work over…
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O.J. Simpson and Virtue in the Marketplace (Part 2 of 2)
Yesterday I suggested that free market capitalism is very efficient at processing the information it receives. If we feed a value system like individualistic materialism into the system, then the results will reflect those values. If we feed virtuous values into the system, the results will reflect those virtues. Most would agree that individualistic materialism…