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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; How This Book. Works; Reflecting on Poverty; Foreword; Abbreviations; Contributors; Part One Poverty Then and Now; 1 Two Concepts of Poverty: A Theological Analysis; Individual versus relational concepts of poverty; Oakes's deprivation concept of poverty; Individual versus relational poverty in international development; Green's relational definition of the poor in Luke; Green's versus Oakes's definitions of poverty; The corporate image of God; 2 Poverty and Its Causes in the Early Church; Introduction; Definitions of poverty |
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Economic models and theories of the ancient Roman economyEumachia's business and trade; Production, distribution and consumption; Social scientific models' critique of an economic model; Economy in Judaea and Galilee in the first century ce; Archaeological evidence from Galilee in the first century ce; Analysis of archaeological evidence; Religious nationalism foments revolt against Rome; Conclusion; 3 Causes of Poverty Today; Introduction; What makes people poor?; What keeps people poor?; Inequality; Fatalism; Is there a way.out?; 4 Response to Lynn H Cohick |
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5 Dream Better Dreams: Response to Katie Harrison6 'Do Good to All' (Gal. 6.10): Assets, Capital and Benefaction in Early Christianity; Introduction; Benefaction in the Graeco-Roman world and in early Christianity; Motivating benefaction in the Graeco-Roman world and early Christianity; Resourcing benefaction; Targeting benefaction in early Christianity; Conclusion; 7 Benefaction. Today?; Introduction; What is benefaction?; An overview of benefaction in.the. UK; Volunteering as benefaction; Contemporary Christian benefaction; What motivates people to be philanthropists and benefactors? |
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Conclusion8 Response to Bruce Longenecker; 9 Response to John Coleby; 10 Patronage and People: Paul's Perspective in Philippians; Introduction; Patronage in the Roman world; Paul's receipt of financial support; Reading Philippians in the light of ancient patronage; Other evidence; Conclusion; 11 Patronage Today; Introduction; Our world today; The complex nature of modern-day aid; Looking to a new discourse; Conclusion; 12 Response to Steve Walton; 13 Response to Helen Hekel; 14 Paul and the Gift to Jerusalem: Overcoming the Problems of the Long-Distance Gift; Introduction; Gifts in antiquity |
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The Jerusalem collection: A hazardous giftPaul's attempts to enable a long-distance gift; Even long-distance gifts aim at reciprocity; 15 Raising Funds in One Place, Giving to Another: Gift Distribution Today; Introduction; The extraordinary generosity of people in poverty; Jesus's generosity; Generosity encouraged; Conclusions; 16 Response to John Barclay; 17 Response to Virginia Luckett; 18 Wealth and Dehumanization: Ezekiel's Oracles against Tyre; Introduction; The book of Ezekiel; The literary context; The wealth and dehumanization of. Tyre; Conclusions; 19 Poverty and Dehumanization |
| Summary |
This innovative volume focuses on the significance of early Christianity for modern means of addressing poverty. The volume offers rigorous study of poverty and its alleviation in both earliest Christianity and today's world. In this light, in seven major areas, an expert in early Christianity in its Jewish and Greco-Roman settings is paired with an expert in modern strategies for addressing poverty and benefaction. They each address the same topic from their respective areas of expertise, and respond to each other's essays. The chapters present the complex ways in which early Christian ideas and practices relate to modern ideas and practices and vice versa. The book addresses both continuities and discontinuities between the ancient world and today. As such the volume seeks to inform and engage church leaders, those working in NGOs concerned with poverty, and all interested in these crucial issues, both Christian and not |
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Religion.
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Religion
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religion (discipline)
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Religion / Christian Life.
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Religion
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Electronic book
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Walton, Steve, editor
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| ISBN |
9780567677754 |
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0567677753 |
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