 Knowing Our LimitsRowan Williams Chapter 1 in Crisis and Recovery, 2010, pp 19-34 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract It is quite striking that in the gospel parables Jesus more than once uses the world of economics as a framework for his stories — the parable of the talents, the dishonest steward, even, we might say, the little vignette of the lost coin. Like farming, like family relationships, like the tensions of public political life, economic relations have something to say to us about how we see our humanity in the context of God’s action. Money is a metaphor alongside other things; our money transactions, like our family connections and our farming and fishing labors, bring out features of our human condition that, rightly understood, tell us something of how we might see our relation to God and God’s to us. A story about how people do and don’t take risks with what they have been given or about an eccentric landowner who insists on paying all his employees the same wage, however long or hard they have been working, becomes a window into the strangeness of God — like the stories about broken families, careless farmers sowing seed all over the place or unwelcome and disgusting foreigners offering life-saving compassion when the usual neighbors are nowhere to be seen. Keywords: Personal Virtue; Civic Virtue; Cardinal Virtue; Usual Neighbor; Thing People (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29491-2_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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