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| Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Poor Lazarus and Rich Christians | |
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| A Billion Hungry Neighbors | |
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| New Economic Divisions in the World | |
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| Uneven Distribution | |
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| Famine Redefined | |
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| Poverty's Children | |
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| Making Progress | |
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| Population | |
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| Limits to Growth? | |
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| The Future and Our Response | |
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| The Affluent Minority | |
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| Promises, Promises | |
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| Where Did It All Begin? | |
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| How Affluent Are We? | |
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| Poverty at $50,000 a Year? | |
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| How Generous Are We? | |
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| Rationalizing Our Affluence | |
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| A Biblical Perspective on the Poor and Possessions | |
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| God and the Poor | |
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| Pivotal Points of Revelation History | |
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| God Identifies with the Poor | |
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| God's Special Instruments | |
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| Why Does God Cast Down the Rich? | |
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| God's Concern and Ours | |
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| Is God on the Side of the Poor? | |
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| Economic Fellowship and Economic Justice | |
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| Capital in an Agricultural Society | |
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| The Year of Jubilee | |
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| The Sabbatical Year | |
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| Laws on Tithing and Gleaning | |
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| Models to Follow and Avoid | |
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| Jesus' New Community | |
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| The Jerusalem Model | |
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| Economic Koinonia | |
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| How Then Shall We Live? | |
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| Thinking Biblically About Property and Possessions | |
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| Private Property | |
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| The Danger of Riches | |
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| The Ring and the Beloved | |
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| Righteousness and Riches | |
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| Carefree Living | |
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| Social Evil: Sin Embedded in Societal Systems | |
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| The Old Testament | |
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| The New Testament | |
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| God's Response | |
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| What Causes Poverty? | |
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| Poverty's Complex Causes | |
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| Sinful Personal Choices | |
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| Unbiblical Worldviews | |
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| Disasters | |
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| Lack of Technology | |
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| Great Inequalities of Power | |
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| Western Colonialism | |
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| Structural Injustice Today | |
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| Evaluating Market Economies | |
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| International Trade | |
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| The International Debt Crisis | |
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| Destroying the Environment and the Poor | |
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| How Are We Harming God's Creation and the Poor? | |
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| Eating Food from Hungry Nations | |
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| Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries | |
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| Discrimination and War | |
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| Repentance | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Toward a Simpler Lifestyle: The Graduated Tithe and Other Modest Proposals | |
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| The God of North America | |
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| Some Examples | |
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| The Graduated Tithe | |
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| Communal Living | |
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| Guidelines for Giving | |
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| Some Practical Suggestions | |
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| Evaluating Organizations | |
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| How Generous Are We? | |
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| The Sabbath and Our Lifestyles | |
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| A Call for Loyalty | |
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| Watching Over One Another in Love | |
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| A Sociological Perspective | |
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| New Patterns of Christian Community | |
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| A Congregation of House Churches | |
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| The Individual House Church | |
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| "All Things in Common" | |
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| Glass Cathedrals in an Age of Hunger? | |
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| The Triple Five Plan | |
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| Making the World More Fair | |
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| Ambulance Drivers or Tunnel Builders? | |
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| Who Will Be Helped? | |
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| A Change in Foreign Policy | |
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| Social Change and Conversion | |
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| Correcting Weaknesses of Market Economies | |
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| Making International Trade More Fair | |
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| Reducing Unmanageable Debt | |
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| Preserving the Earth and Empowering the Poor | |
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| Does Foreign Aid Help? | |
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| Bombs, Bread, and Illusions | |
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| Organizations That Make a Difference | |
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| Let Justice Ring | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Organizations | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index of Persons and Topics | |