Just generosity a new vision for overcoming poverty in America
Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. Baker Books c1999Description: 266 p. 23 cmISBN:- 080106015X
- 9780801060151
- New vision for overcoming poverty in America
- Poverty -- United States
- Poor -- United States
- Distributive justice -- United States
- Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Pauvret©Øe -- ©ØEtats-Uni
- Justice distributive -- ©ØEtats-Un
- Distributive justice
- Economic history
- Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Poor
- Poverty
- Social conditions
- Christianity and economics
- United States -- Social conditions
- United States -- Economic conditions
- ©ØEtats-Unis -- Conditions socia
- ©ØEtats-Unis -- Conditions ©Øeconom
- United States
- 362.580973 21
- HC110.P63 S524 1999
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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.