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Power and poverty : divine and human rule in a world of need / Dewi Hughes ; foreword by Christopher Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2008.Description: 253 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780830828098 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0830828095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.8/325 22
LOC classification:
  • BS680.P47 H84 2008
Contents:
Finding the roots of poverty in Genesis 1-11 -- God's covenant with Abraham and its significance in the history of redemption -- Divinely ordained government in the Old Testament -- The laws to prevent poverty -- Welfare law and what it implies about being poor -- The glory and inadequacy of the Mosaic covenant -- Jesus the supreme ruler -- What Jesus did : the acts of the supreme ruler -- What Jesus taught : the Beatitudes -- What Jesus taught : strategies for kingdom living -- What Jesus is doing : the work of the Holy Spirit -- What Jesus is going to do : the final judgment -- The ordered society of the supreme ruler -- The church is a joyful community -- The church is a community who speak God's words.
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Books Books AIU/NEGST - Tony Wilmot Memorial Library General Stacks General Circulation BS 680.P47 H84 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available R29589J3232
Books Books AIU/NEGST - Tony Wilmot Memorial Library General Stacks General Circulation BS 680.P47H84 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available R58786K3232

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BS 680.P47 A58 2001 Holism in development : BS 680.P47 B6313 1980 The rich, the poor--and the Bible / BS 680.P47H36 1983 God so loved the Third World : the biblical vocabulary of oppression / BS 680.P47H84 2008 Power and poverty : BS 680.P47 H84 2008 Power and poverty : BS 680.P47L64 1995 Option for the poor : BS 680.P47M86 2011 It is expensive to be poor :

Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-245) and index.

Finding the roots of poverty in Genesis 1-11 -- God's covenant with Abraham and its significance in the history of redemption -- Divinely ordained government in the Old Testament -- The laws to prevent poverty -- Welfare law and what it implies about being poor -- The glory and inadequacy of the Mosaic covenant -- Jesus the supreme ruler -- What Jesus did : the acts of the supreme ruler -- What Jesus taught : the Beatitudes -- What Jesus taught : strategies for kingdom living -- What Jesus is doing : the work of the Holy Spirit -- What Jesus is going to do : the final judgment -- The ordered society of the supreme ruler -- The church is a joyful community -- The church is a community who speak God's words.

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