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Less Than Two Dollars a Day : a Christian view of world poverty and the free market by Kent A. Van TilPublication Date: 2007
Van Til takes a hard look at the realities of life in a free-market system. He considers how the contemporary capitalist economy guides the distribution of goods around the world, and he examines the inadequacies of this system. Drawing heavily on the ideas of political theorist Michael Walzer and nineteenth-century theologian-statesman Abraham Kuyper, Van Til proposes an alternative system of distributive justice, equalizing the claims to both burdens and benefits.
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The Fear of Beggars : stewardship and poverty in Christian ethics by Kelly S. JohnsonPublication Date: 2007
Why, asks Kelly Johnson, does Christian ethics so rarely tackle the real-life question of whether to give to beggars? Examining both classical economics and Christian stewardship ethics as reactions to medieval debates about the role of mendicants in the church and in wider society, Johnson reveals modern anxiety about dependence and humility as well as the importance of Christian attempts to rethink property relations in ways that integrate those qualities.
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Always with Us? What Jesus Really Said about the Poor by Liz Theoharis;Publication Date: 2017
Theoharis reinterprets "the poor you will always have with you" to show that it is actually one of the strongest biblical mandates to end poverty. She documents stories of poor people themselves organizing to improve their lot and illuminates the implications for the church. Poverty is not inevitable, Theoharis argues. It is a systemic sin, and all Christians have a responsibility to partner with the poor to end poverty once and for all.
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Charitable Choices by John P. Bartkowski; Helen A. RegisISBN: 1417588144
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America's welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty. Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south.
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Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture by Jerald D. Gort (Volume Editor)Publication Date: 2010
Christianity exists in relation to and interacts with its cultural environment in a number of ways. In this volume authors from a wide variety of backgrounds explore various facets of the relationship and interaction of Christianity with its cultural environment: politics, society, esthetics, religion and spirituality, and with itself. Divided into three main sections, Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture looks at the interaction of Christianity with culture in the first section, with other religions and spiritualities in the second, and finally with itself in the third.
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And Who Is My Neighbor? by Gerald W. SchlabachISBN: 0585262705
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Blessed are the poor? -- The poor are us -- Christ, the poor one -- When did we see you? -- Where your treasure is, there will your heart be -- New heavens, new earth -- Good news to the poor -- Learning to read with the poor -- Who is the neighbor? -- What shall we do? -- A closing prayer -- Poverty and economic justice -- Poverty, militarism, and war -- Poverty and environmental degradation -- Cycles of poverty and webs of culture.
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Less Than Two Dollars a Day : a Christian view of world poverty and the free market by 
The Fear of Beggars : stewardship and poverty in Christian ethics by 
Always with Us? What Jesus Really Said about the Poor by 
From Dependence to Dignity: how to alleviate poverty through church-centered microfinance by 
Poverty and the Poor in the World's Religious Traditions: Religious Responses to the Problem of Poverty
Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture by