ASTUTENESS AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: AN EXEGETICAL STUDY OF LUKE 16:1-8

Résumé

Biblical exegesis has contributed immensely to the better understanding of the Christian faith. For instance, Catholic beliefs and practices, hitherto not accepted by some other Christian denominations, have become readily accepted or tolerated, all because of the educating power of exegesis. The areas where exegesis has immensely affected people are not just in religious climes, but also in social climes. For this reason, exegesis as a science has to be an ongoing phenomenon, because it will continue to help to clarify difficult and mind boggling biblical events and teachings with especially socio-economic consequences in them. The passage under study in this article (Lk 16:1-8) is one of those Jesus' parables that can be very easily misunderstood and so misapplied into life's situations when it is not properly understood and explained. The endeavour in this article is to try to understand this parable and to see whether it does make astuteness a Christian virtue.