Poverty In The Promised Land

Download or read book Poverty in the Promised Land written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides biblical evidence of the structural and systemic factors that have long been part of the story of poverty. The people of God have often denied such structural claims in favor of the belief that individuals are poor because of personal choice. This absolves the social institutions of society, including the church, from responsibility to address these structural forces, including within the church itself. Charity and benevolence become the antidote for such a diagnosis of poverty, rather than the deeply rooted change that God intended for the Year of Jubilee and that the early church reflected. This book supports the biblical mandate of neighborliness as both a personal and a corporate response to systemic poverty, a mandate that is the second of the two great commandments.