God knows there's need
Subtitle: Christian responses to poverty
By: Susan R. Holman.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780195383621
Subjects: Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
Description: In this volume, Susan Holman looks at how the Christian tradition, ancient and modern, has contemplated the subject of poverty and encourages the reader to reflect on the social issues of injustice and need. She alternates images from late antiquity and the patristic period with stories from contemporary American life.
Table of contents: title: God knows : empathic remembering; title: Remembering as personal story; title: Engaging paradigms : the shape of early Christian need; title: On living and telling : crossing the gap; title: Poverty and the gendering of empathy; title: Maria's choice; title: On living crunchy and doing right(s); title: Embodying sacred kingdom.