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Poverty in the Promised Land

Neighborliness, Resistance, and Restoration
  • ISBN-13: 9798889831389
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Walter Brueggemann, Edited by Conrad L. Kanagy
  • Price: AUD $41.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 13/08/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 105 pages Weight: 318g
  • Categories: Theology [HRLB]
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This book provides biblical evidence of the structural and systemic factors that have long been part of the story of poverty. The people of God have often denied such structural claims in favor of the belief that individuals are poor because of personal choice. This absolves the social institutions of society, including the church, from responsibility to address these structural forces, including within the church itself. Charity and benevolence become the antidote for such a diagnosis of poverty, rather than the deeply rooted change that God intended for the Year of Jubilee and that the early church reflected. This book supports the biblical mandate of neighborliness as both a personal and a corporate response to systemic poverty, a mandate that is the second of the two great commandments.
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian of today. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology. Conrad L. Kanagy is professor of sociology at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. He has an undergraduate degree from Wheaton College and a PhD from Penn State. He is the author of eight books and numerous scholarly articles. His primary area of expertise is American and global Christianity.
Introduction: History and Data Matter but so Does Theology 1. Taking 2. Devouring 3. Lazy 4. Private Opulence and Public Squalor 5. Scarcity-cum-Segregation 6. Giving Up 7. Coveting Conclusion: Poverty in a Land of Promise
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