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Book Reviews : Taxation By Avignon Popes

How can the New Testament guide and inform the church’s moral discernment, let alone act as a controlling source for Christian ethics, when it was written so long ago and in very different circumstances? This is the fundamental question with which Sondra Ely Wheeler is concerned in Wealth as Peril and Obligation: The New Testament on Possessions (Eerdmans, 1995, $14.99, pp. 158, ISBN 0-8028-0733-X). She tackles the issue of wealth and possessions to demonstrate how her proposed methodology works. The book begins with an examination of how six contemporary ethicists use scripture, and weaknesses in their approaches are identified. A ’constructive proposal’ follows, in which five methodological principles are laid