The great economy/sabath and jubilee wendell berry

Great Economy

-The kingdom of God

-Main Idea - the earth is a garden planet and an ecosystem, and our role in it is as part of that ecosystem

-We can use the earth, but do it in a way that contributes to the whole rather than using up resources

Little economy

Our normal practice of buying and selling money

Can humans participate in the great economy

No

The great economy is cyclical and does not break from its pattern

True

what is the significance of topsoil

Not just dirt but a living community of organisms that cannot be replaces

Sabbath, Sabbath year, and Jubilee

Principles of the Great Economy

Sabath

the 7th day of the week when God rested therefore the people should rest

Sabath year

Every 7 years, the people of the Lord were to release each other from their debts

Jubilee

-Every 50th year, the Sabbath year of Sabbath years occurred

-Slaves were released; debts were cancelled

-Any land that had been sold to pay a debt must be returned back to its ancestral owner

God gives us everything we need and is properly — and not —-

received, earned

Meyers ‘ Sabbath Economics teaches

-God gives us everything we need, and it is properly received, not earned

-Redistribution of wealth through debt cancellation so that the poor are not kept poor

-Binding moral responsibility of the wealthy not to remain wealthy at the expense of others

Binding moral responsibility of…

wealthy not to remain wealthy at the expense of others