BET Archive | Volume 2 – Essays on Work, Wealth, and Economics
Title
A Christian Antidote to 'Affluenza': Contentment in Christ
Gary Shultz Jr.
Abstract (from the Editorial of BET vol. 2.1)
Gary Schultz (CPT Second Fellowship) exegetes Philippians 4:10- 13 and 1 Timothy 6:6-10, finding in Paul’s call to contentment a powerful theological antidote to the contemporary malaise of “affluenza.”
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Gary Shultz serves as Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church of Tallahassee. Gary holds a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and received his M.Div. and M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Baptist Bible Theological Seminary. He is the author of A Multi-Intentioned View of the Extent of the Atonement (Wipf and Stock, 2014) and a member of the St. Peter Fellowship of the Center for Pastor Theologians.
