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Foreword | xi |
Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition | xiii |
Acknowledgments | xix |
PART ONE: POOR LAZARUS AND RICH CHRISTIANS | |
1. A Billion Hungry Neighbors | 1 |
New Economic Divisions in the World | 3 |
Uneven Distribution | 5 |
Famine Redefined | 7 |
Poverty's Children | 9 |
Making Progress | 12 |
Population | 14 |
Limits to Growth? | 17 |
The Future and Our Response | 17 |
2. The Affluent Minority | 21 |
Promises, Promises | 22 |
Where Did It All Begin? | 23 |
How Affluent Are We? | 24 |
Poverty at $40,000 a Year? | 30 |
How Generous Are We? | 31 |
Rationalizing Our Affluence | 33 |
PART TWO: ABIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE POOR AND POSSESSIONS | |
3. God and the Poor | 41 |
Pivotal Points of Revelation History | 42 |
God Identifies with the Poor | 49 |
God's Special Instruments | 50 |
Why Does God Cast Down the Rich? | 52 |
God's Concern and Ours | 57 |
Is God on the Side of the Poor? | 63 |
4. Economic Fellowship and Economic Justice | 67 |
Capital in an Agricultural Society | 68 |
The Year of Jubilee | 69 |
The Sabbatical Year | 72 |
Laws on Tithing and Gleaning | 74 |
Models to Follow and Avoid | 75 |
Jesus' New Community | 77 |
The Jerusalem Model | 79 |
Economic Koinonia | 83 |
How Then Shall We Live? | 89 |
5. Thinking Biblically about Property and Possessions | 91 |
Private Property | 91 |
The Danger of Riches | 95 |
The Ring and the Beloved | 99 |
Righteousness and Riches | 101 |
Carefree Living | 104 |
6. Social Evil: Sin Embedded in Societal Systems | 109 |
The Old Testament | 111 |
The New Testament | 117 |
God's Response | 118 |
PART THREE: WHAT CAUSES POVERTY? | |
7. Poverty's Complex Causes | 125 |
Sinful Personal Choices | 125 |
Unbiblical Worldviews | 126 |
Disasters | 127 |
Lack of Technology | 128 |
Great Inequalities of Power | 128 |
Western Colonialism | 133 |
8. Structural Injustice Today | 137 |
Evaluating Market Economies | 139 |
International Trade | 147 |
The International Debt Crisis | 153 |
Destroying the Environment and the Poor | 157 |
Eating Food from Hungry Nations | 166 |
Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries | 171 |
Repentance | 184 |
PART FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION | |
9 | Toward a Simpler Lifestyle: The Graduated Tithe and |
Other Modest Proposals | 189 |
The God of North America | 191 |
Some Examples | 192 |
The Graduated Tithe | 193 |
Communal Living | 196 |
Guidelines for Giving | 197 |
Some Practical Suggestions | 198 |
Evaluating Organizations | 200 |
How Generous Are We? | 204 |
The Sabbath and Our Lifestyles | 206 |
A Call for Loyalty | 207 |
10. Watching Over One Another in Love | 209 |
A Sociological Perspective | 211 |
New Patterns of Christian Community | 213 |
A Congregation of House Churches | 214 |
The Individual House Church | 218 |
"All Things in Common" | 219 |
Glass Cathedrals in an Age of Hunger? | 220 |
The Triple Five Plan | 221 |
11. Making the World More Fair | 223 |
Ambulance Drivers or Tunnel Builders? | 224 |
Who Will Be Helped? | 227 |
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