Remembering: Offering Our Gifts
D. Stephen Long and Tripp York
In 16th century England, theology were inseparable from politics and economics as demonstrated by the Eucharist. They default orientation of people in that time was the liturgy. In our day, the default orientation is one of a consumer.
Bringing Our Gifts to the Altar. In the liturgy, Christians are instructed to bring offerings to the altar. Why do this? It is really symbolic of the gift that God has given to us—his Son’s sacrifice for our sins.
Is Such a Gift Possible? The difference between a gift economy and a contract economy.
Liberal Redemption: Contract and Forgetting. The nature of a contract economy. One key feature is that when the contract is over, the relationship ends.
Gifts: Outside Politics. The nature of a gift economy.
A Different Kind of Gift: The Politics of Remembering. God is pure gift. the Spirit could even be called Gift.
The Gift of Life.
Remembering Out Debts.
<This chapter was hard for me to follow.>