Always with Us?

Always with Us?

Author: Theoharis, Liz

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0802875025

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"Jesus's words 'the poor you will always have with you' (Matthew 26:11) are regularly used to suggest that ending poverty is impossible. In this book Liz Theoharis critically examines both the biblical text and the lived reality of the poor to show how this passage is taken out of context and distorted. Poverty is not inevitable, Theoharis argues. It is a systemic sin, and all Christians have a responsibility to partner with the poor to end poverty once and for all"--Jacket