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Just generosity a new vision for overcoming poverty in America

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. Baker Books c1999Description: 266 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 080106015X
  • 9780801060151
Other title:
  • New vision for overcoming poverty in America
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Just generosity.DDC classification:
  • 362.580973 21
LOC classification:
  • HC110.P63 S524 1999
Contents:
Poverty amidst abundance -- What does poverty look like? -- A holistic, biblical vision for empowering the poor -- A biblical foundation -- A comprehensive strategy -- Implementing the vision -- If I work, can I earn a family income? -- Broken families and rising poverty -- Does justice include health care for the poor? -- Quality education for everyone -- Could welfare empower the poor? -- Other important issues affecting the poor -- The generous Christians generation -- We can end the scandal.
Summary: "Ron Sider calls believers to care as much about the poor as Jesus did. He offers a new, holistic approach in which much expanded faith-based groups work with business, media, and government, uniting inner spiritual transformation and correction of structural injustice, to help end poverty in the world's richest nation. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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Book Book Reformational Study Centre General library 362.580973 SIDE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available RSC037674

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and indexes.

Poverty amidst abundance -- What does poverty look like? -- A holistic, biblical vision for empowering the poor -- A biblical foundation -- A comprehensive strategy -- Implementing the vision -- If I work, can I earn a family income? -- Broken families and rising poverty -- Does justice include health care for the poor? -- Quality education for everyone -- Could welfare empower the poor? -- Other important issues affecting the poor -- The generous Christians generation -- We can end the scandal.

"Ron Sider calls believers to care as much about the poor as Jesus did. He offers a new, holistic approach in which much expanded faith-based groups work with business, media, and government, uniting inner spiritual transformation and correction of structural injustice, to help end poverty in the world's richest nation. Book jacket."--Jacket.

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