Good news for the poor and the sick
By: guest editor, Pieter Verster
Contributors: University of the Free State
Series: Acta theologica. Supplementum -- 16; Acta theologica -- 16.
Publisher: Sun MeDIA
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloemfontein, [South Africa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Poverty; Christianity; Church work with the poor; Church work with the sick; AIDS (Disease)
Notes: University of the Free State: cover.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Biblical implications and the alleviation/eradication of poverty: The possible function of the beatitude of the poor in the context of the struggle against poverty  -- J. Kugler; title: Poverty relief or poverty eradication?  -- J.J. Kritzinger; title: "...but the poor opted for the Evangelicals!"-Evangelicals, poverty and prosperity  -- G. van der Watt; title: Mission as action in hope in the context of white poverty in Pretoria: A case for Betlehem Mission Centre  -- D. Mashau; title: The church and poverty: New directions: A church with the poor - lessons from Scripture and from congregations in informal settlements  -- P. Verster; title: God's missional people: Reflecting God's love in the midst of suffering and affliction  -- F.J. van H. Hancke; title: The community and the poor: Siyazama entrepreneurial development project: Challenges of a community-university partnership within a Faculty of Theology  -- M.J. Botha & R.M. Albertyn; title: Hope for HIV-AIDS patients: The Church's response to the HIV-AIDS epidemic in India  -- N. Aries; title: Pauline challenge to African masculinities: Reading Pauline texts in the context of HIV-AIDS  -- L. Togarasei; title: The unified body of Christ as Biblical metaphor for being church -- L Schoeman.