“But please, where does the story about poor Lazarus say anything about his ‘heart’?… The really frightening thing about the story is precisely the fact that it is not moralised but simply tells about the poor and the rich, the promise to one and the threat to the other.”
Bonhoeffer on the errors of “spiritualising” a text like Luke 16:19-30
In “reflections on the bible”
Hendrickson 2004
Nelly And I 