"Revised and updated"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-336) and index.
Contents:
Part one: Poor Lazarus and rich Christians. A billion hungry neighbors -- The affluent minority -- Part two: A biblical perspective on the poor and possessions. God and the poor -- Economic fellowship and economic justice -- Thinking biblically about property and possessions -- Social evil: sin embedded in societal systems -- Part three: What causes poverty? Poverty's complex causes -- Structural injustice today -- Part four: Implementation. Toward a simpler lifestyle: the graduated tithe and other modest proposals -- Watching over one another in love -- Making the world more fair.
Summary:
"When Ron Sider's Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger first appeared almost forty years ago, it shook readers to the core. Informed about the issues of world hunger and poverty, they could no longer ignore the plight of their global neighbors. This thoroughly revised edition of Sider's bestselling book outlines the progress that has been made in the last four decades--and the work that is still left to do. Every day 18,000 children under five still die of starvation and preventable diseases, and more than a billion people live in relentless, unrelieved poverty worldwide. Why is there still so much poverty? Conservatives blame sinful individual choices and laziness. Liberals condemn economic and social structures. Who is right? Who is wrong? Both, according to Sider, who explains poverty's complex causes in this new edition and offers concrete, practical proposals for change."--Back cover.
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