Poverty, the Church's Abandoned Revolution
Author : Colin Baltron Archer
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Church work with the poor
ISBN :
Author : Colin Baltron Archer
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Church work with the poor
ISBN :
Author : Julio Xavier Labayen
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Church and social problems
ISBN :
Author : George Barna
Publisher : Tyndale Momentum
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781414338972
Explores the state of the church today, offering biblical guidelines for the church, a redefinition of the institution, and seven core principles of the revolutionaries who are seeking to model the church after its biblical commission.
Author : Alberto Martin Alvarez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317291379
Leading figures and rising stars in the field present the first contribution explaining the transnational nature of the revolutionary violence of the New Left. Focusing on the processes of dissemination of ideologies and mobilization of ideas and repertoires of action among the revolutionary organizations of the New Left in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, this book contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of the New Left wave and, at the same time, helps explain the "why" of the emergence of very similar armed leftist groups in vastly different geographical and political contexts.
Author : Shane Claiborne
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310296080
Living as an Ordinary RadicalMany of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we’ve made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action, and love, inviting us into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world. Shane’s faith led him to dress the wounds of lepers with Mother Teresa, visit families in Iraq amidst bombings, and dump $10,000 in coins and bills on Wall Street to redistribute wealth. Shane lives out this revolution each day in his local neighborhood, an impoverished community in North Philadelphia, by living among the homeless, helping local kids with homework, and “practicing resurrection” in the forgotten places of our world. Shane’s message will comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable . . . but will also invite us into an irresistible revolution. His is a vision for ordinary radicals ready to change the world with little acts of love.
Author : Susan Eva Eckstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400853915
The plight of the urban poor in Mexico has changed little since World War II, despite the country's impressive rate of economic growth. Susan Eckstein considers how market forces and state policies that were ostensibly designed to help the poor have served to maintain their poverty. She draws on intensive research in a center city slum, a squatter settlement, and a low-cost housing development. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Thomas Bokenkotter
Publisher : Image
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2010-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0307874869
Though sometimes a source of controversy regarding certain issues, the Catholic Church has in many ways lead the struggle for social justice and rights for the poor in our age. Pope John Paul II never lets an opportunity pass without insisting on the need for greater respect for human rights and the need to alleviate the pains of poverty. In the United States the Catholic Church is the single largest private organization providing assistance to the underprivileged--operating soup kitchens and shelters for the homeless, providing care for the sick, and education for the needy. But this struggle was not always a top priority. In fact, at the time of the French Revolution the Catholic Church was among the most conservative and reactionary of the world's powers. Church and Revolution deals with the interesting historical question: How did the Catholic Church develop from being a defender of the status quo to being a progressive force in world affairs? Thomas Bokenkotter traces the development of social justice in the Church over the 200 years since the French Revolution through portraits of fifteen colorful figures who were all key to the political revolutions of the past two centuries and who also effected the Church's response to them--including Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero; Irish emancipator Daniel O'Connell; founder of the American Catholic Worker movement, Dorothy Day; and Polish electrician and President, Lech Walesa.
Author : Mike Aquilina
Publisher : Image
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804138974
Combining history, politics, and religion, Mike Aquilina and Jim Papandrea provide practical lessons to be learned from the struggles of the Early Church, lessons that can be applied to the day-to-day lives of Christian readers. Prolonged, multiple wars in the Middle East. Waves of immigrants crossing the borders. Ongoing economic recession. Increasing political polarization, often with religious overtones. Conflicts over ideologies that pit the progressive against the traditional. Sound familiar? These conditions not only describe the United States, but the situation of the Roman Empire in the third century. That situation led to religious persecution and the eventual collapse of the empire. In the middle of the third century, the Roman Empire was roughly the same age as the United States is now. In this book, authors Mike Aquilina and Jim Papandrea examine the practices of the Early Church—a body of Christians living in Rome—and show how the lessons learned from these ancient Christians can apply to Christians living in the United States today. The book moves from the Christian individual, to the family, the church and the world, explaining how the situation of the Early Church is not only familiar to modern Christian readers, but that its values are still relevant
Author : Steven Laurence Kaplan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1501727338
No detailed description available for "Farewell, Revolution".
Author : Mark Bredin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532642547
Is Jesus relevant to the sufferings of the helpless, the voiceless, those dying of hunger, those traumatized by violence, people with learning difficulties? In Matthew, we see Jesus to be a man on the frontline, battling against the forces that stop the non-poor from living generously, and the poorest of the poor living abundantly the way God intended. This is Jesus as one who in his very being is an expression of God's wrath against human beings who live their lives as if creation is a battle zone where only the selfish and powerful flourish. Matthew's Jesus is outraged at the lethargy and apathy that permits non-poor people to live according to practices that lead so many to be excluded from the fruits of God's creation. But the Jesus found in this gospel is also one who teaches that God has created a world that is good to see; it is abundant as long as people live according to the dynamic order God has inwardly established in creation, one rooted in generosity, hospitality, love, self-sacrifice, righteousness, justice, Torah, and mercy.