Poverty in the Promised Land

Neighborliness, Resistance, and Restoration

Walter Brueggemann, Conrad L. Kanagy

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Fortress Press,U.S.
13 August 2024

Theology

This book provides biblical evidence of the structural and systemic factors that have long been part of the story of poverty. The people of God have often denied such structural claims in favor of the belief that individuals are poor because of personal choice. This absolves the social institutions of society, including the church, from responsibility to address these structural forces, including within the church itself. Charity and benevolence become the antidote for such a diagnosis of poverty, rather than the deeply rooted change that God intended for the Year of Jubilee and that the early church reflected. This book supports the biblical mandate of neighborliness as both a personal and a corporate response to systemic poverty, a mandate that is the second of the two great commandments.

By: Walter Brueggemann
Edited by: Conrad L. Kanagy
Imprint: Fortress Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9798889831389
Pages: 105
Publication Date: 13 August 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction: History and Data Matter but so Does Theology 1. Taking 2. Devouring 3. Lazy 4. Private Opulence and Public Squalor 5. Scarcity-cum-Segregation 6. Giving Up 7. Coveting Conclusion: Poverty in a Land of Promise

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian of today. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology. Conrad L. Kanagy is professor of sociology at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. He has an undergraduate degree from Wheaton College and a PhD from Penn State. He is the author of eight books and numerous scholarly articles. His primary area of expertise is American and global Christianity.