Ancient Israel offered living beasts, which represented not what the worshipers had done or made, but the essential resource on which their existence depended. And so in Christian liturgy we bring our offering in the form of money, the point of which is that it is nothing concrete at all. Our money is the unexploited potential for whatever we may become capable of, the pure symbol, the unactualized resource, which represents the material conditions of our being and doing.
