| Description |
xii, 131 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Concilium, 0010-5236 ; 187 |
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Concilium (Glen Rock, N.J.) ; v. 187.
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| Contents |
Editorial / Leonardo Boff, Virgil Elizondo -- Part I: The reality of wealth of the cost of poverty -- How the rich nations came to be rich / Julio de Santa Ana -- The world of wealth and the gods of wealth / John Kavanaugh -- Part II: 'Blessed are you poor', election and mission of the poor -- God protects and liberates the poor, O.T. / Juan Alfaro -- For human begins, impossible! / Georges Casalis -- Part III: The poor int he Christian tradition -- 'Have we not then made a heaven of earth?' Rich and poor in the early church / Rainer Kampling -- Gospel poverty and the poor / David Flood -- 'The kingdom of God on earth?' The Jesuit reductions of Paraguay / Michel Clevenot -- Part IV: Irruption of the poor, evangelical challenge to the rich -- Liberation theology in the 'first world'? / Norbert Greinacher -- The ebb and flow of the gospel / Enrique Dussel -- Irruption of the poor: challenges to theology / Samuel Rayan -- The challenge of Catcholic education / Walter Fernandes -- Churches in developed countries and the people of the third world / Richard A. Couch. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Subject |
Church work with the poor.
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Wealth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| Added Author |
Boff, Leonardo.
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Elizondo, Virgilio P.
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Lefébure, Marcus.
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| ISBN |
0567300676 paperback |
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