Poverty in the Promised Land: Neighborliness, Resistance, and Restoration

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.

Author: Walter Brueggemann
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 08/13/2024
Pages: 105
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9798889831389
Language: English