{"id":2787,"date":"2007-10-26T00:20:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T00:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/must-everything-change-12.html"},"modified":"2007-10-26T00:20:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T00:20:24","slug":"must-everything-change-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/must-everything-change-12.html","title":{"rendered":"Must Everything Change? 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does Jesus counter the framing story of theocapitalism? Here, from Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change<\/a>\"\"<\/em> are the four counter framing stories for Jesus.
\nFirst the four spiritual laws of theocapitalism and then the four spiritual laws that counter them:
\n1. The law of progress through rapid growth — the one god of progress.
\n2. The law of serenity through possession and consumption — happiness through owning.
\n3. The law of salvation through competition alone — saved through competition.
\n4. The law of freedom to prosper through unaccountable corporations — etc.
\nNow Jesus’ counter framing story that offers us an alternative society, the kingdom of God:
\n1. The law of good deeds for the common good. [Economy isn’t a bad thing; money isn’t bad; ownership isn’t bad; the key — how do you use what you have? The goal is amassing a portfolio of good deeds. Concern is with common good and not simply self- or national interest.]
\n2. Law of satisfaction through gratitude and sharing. [Consumption follows the Fall of Adam and Eve; an “avalance of alienation crashes into the human story” (217). What matters is in build-up of goods and possessions is not the thing itself but what it stands for: number, status, coolness, youth, beauty, fashion, growth.]
\n3. The law of salvation through seeking justice. [Here McLaren focuses on the beatitude’s focus on “righteousness” or “justice”.]
\n4. The law of freedom to prosper by building better communities. [Communism, Rene Padilla says, is good at distribution but bad at production; capitalism is good at production but bad at distribution. Jesus calls to both. We need to be collabotors for co-liberation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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