Nick Freiling is the Managing Editor of the Economic Companion to the Bible.
Two articles on The Washington Post "On Faith" blog explicitly state that Christianity is socialist and anti-capitalist. The central argument given by both authors is that the description of the early Christian community in Acts 2-5 having “all things in common” mandates socialism (or communism). Is this true?
This article suggests that the law of Deuteronomy 23:25, 26, which allows all people unlimited access to fields, is referring to ownerless fields that have only two possible uses, as farmland or as passageways for travelers. If the value of the land as a pathway for travelers is greater
The essay challenges Karl Polanyi's position-that ancient Near Eastern economies knew state and temple administration but not price-making markets. It is found that the prerequisite functions of a market economy listed by Polanyi – the allocation of consumer goods, land, and labor through the supply-demand-price mechanism; risk-bearing organized as
labor
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Rome
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exchange
An examination of wealth and exchange in the Gospels and first-century Palestine.