Poor for the poor
Subtitle: the mission of the church
By: Cardinal Gerhard Müller
Publisher: Libreria Editrice Vaticana; United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781601374745
Subjects: Poverty; Christianity; Liberation theology; Church work with the poor; Catholic Church; Evangelistic work
Work titles: Povera per i poveri: la missione della chiesa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The liberating mission of the church; title: The word of God and the signs of the times; title: Human development between creation and fulfillment: notes on the encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis of St. John Paul II; title: Liberation theology today; title: "Test everything; retain what is good" (1 Thes 5:21): twenty-five years after the instruction Libertatis Conscientia on liberation theology; title: pt. 2. The evangelizing mission of the church; title: Faith, the true richness of the church; title: "From the God of the dead to the god of the living"; title: Contemporary challenges for theology; title: pt. 3. From Latin America to the universal church; title: The preferential option for the poor at Aparecida; title: pt. 4. Evangelization and engagement for justice; title: Sharing an experience; title: The church, advocate of justice and of the poor.; title: Conclusion -- The spirituality of the conciliar event  -- Gustavo Gutierrez; title: Poverty: the challenge of faith -- Josef Sayer.