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God knows there's need : Christian responses to poverty /

In this volume, Susan Holman looks at how the Christian tradition, ancient and modern, has contemplated the subject of poverty and encourages the reader to reflect on the social issues of injustice and need. She alternates images from late antiquity and the patristic period with stories from contemp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holman, Susan R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines
Armoede.
Religieuze aspecten.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • God knows : empathic remembering
  • Remembering as personal story
  • Engaging paradigms : the shape of early Christian need
  • On living and telling : crossing the gap
  • Poverty and the gendering of empathy
  • Maria's choice
  • On living crunchy and doing right(s)
  • Embodying sacred kingdom.