tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006479003534298455.post1578065686616957197..comments2023-10-12T07:59:31.827-04:00Comments on Antiquitopia: Is the Bible Socialist? Luke-Acts (Part 2)Jared Calawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380681998833566514noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006479003534298455.post-47305608863612285222008-10-30T22:34:00.000-04:002008-10-30T22:34:00.000-04:00By the way, I found his discussion very clear and ...By the way, I found his discussion very clear and well-thought.Jared Calawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380681998833566514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006479003534298455.post-72465596612039465402008-10-30T22:26:00.000-04:002008-10-30T22:26:00.000-04:00I wonder how he might take the earlier part in Luk...I wonder how he might take the earlier part in Luke, when Jesus commands the same thing, but there is no church organization. <BR/><BR/>In Luke, the money is given directly to the poor and is not mediated through the early "Christian" leaders as in Acts. Although Acts, in a way, demonstrates a communal social form that Luke does not necessarily assume.<BR/><BR/>Both texts seem to be highly critical of private property. And, if this is the "kingdom," perhaps it relates to ideal, future social structures in Luke and trying to create those ideal socio-economic bonds in Acts.Jared Calawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380681998833566514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006479003534298455.post-57687706195303363572008-10-30T21:59:00.000-04:002008-10-30T21:59:00.000-04:00One of my favorite religion scholars, James K. A. ...One of my favorite religion scholars, James K. A. Smith of Calvin College, has posted a couple times about this, including a letter he wrote to a local newspaper. You can find his blog here: http://forsclavigera.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>He makes the point that it might very well be true that the Bible is advocating that the mandate in early Acts to hold everything in common applies only to the church, not to society as a whole, but that those who most adamantly make this claim are usually somewhat hypocritical, since they themselves also have very little interest in having any kind of socialist, wealth-spreading tendencies within the church.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05505516611889828895noreply@blogger.com