Abstract
In the context of our modern global economy in which the richest one percent of the population becomes richer, while the poor grow ever poorer, this essay draws attention to the many biblical texts that announce God’s concern for economic justice. From teachings that govern community life in the torah of Moses, to the indictments of injustice made by the prophets, and to the good news proclaimed by Jesus in the Gospels, the Bible contains a radical message of God’s favor for the poor and God’s condemnation for those who exploit the poor and sustain systems of economic injustice. Society today tends to compartmentalize “religion” and “real life” in order conveniently to ignore these biblical imperatives.1
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