Imagine if someone claimed that Jesus was a capitalist. He might point to Jesus’s parable of the talents, where he says the man with one talent should have invested it “with the bankers” so that the master would receive “what was my own with interest” (Matt. 25:27). Most of us would say that this person was imposing modern categories on an ancient text in order to promote a viewpoint that would have made no sense to the authors of the Bible.