The Power of the Poor in History

The Power of the Poor in History

Author: Gustavo Gutierrez

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-10-29

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1592449808

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Gustavo Gutierrez, the doyen of the Latin American liberation theologians, published his landmark 'A Theology of Liberation' in English in 1973. In 'The Power of the Poor in History' he presents in eight major essays his developing theological insights.


Off the Books

Off the Books

Author: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780674044647

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In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.


The Preferential Option for the Poor Beyond Theology

The Preferential Option for the Poor Beyond Theology

Author: Daniel G. Groody

Publisher:

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780268207083

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The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond Theology draws on an interdisciplinary group of contributors to explore how to practice a commitment to the preferential option for the poor.


The War of the Poor

The War of the Poor

Author: Éric Vuillard

Publisher: Other Press, LLC

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1635420091

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International Booker Prize Finalist The Spectator (UK): Best Book of the Year From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ War (1524–25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to question why they shouldn’t have equality here and now on earth. There ensued a furious struggle between the powerful—the comfortable Protestants—and the others, the wretched. They were led by a number of theologians, one of whom has left his mark on history through his determination and sheer energy. His name was Thomas Müntzer, and he set Germany on fire. The War of the Poor recounts his story—that of an insurrection through the Word. In his characteristically bold, cinematic style, Éric Vuillard draws insights from this revolt from nearly five hundred years ago, which remains shockingly relevant to the dire inequalities we face today.


The Book of the Poor

The Book of the Poor

Author: Kenan Heise

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781936863334

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"Collecting dozens of interviews conducted over 50 years to give voice to the 16 percent that live below the poverty line, journalist Kenan Heise ... addresses unemployment, prison, nutrition needs and hunger, the lives of impoverished children, panhandling, health-care struggles, the role of race in poverty, and Dumpster diving"--P. [4] of cover.


Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor

Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor

Author: Leonardo Boff

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1608330974

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Focusing on the threated Amazon of his native Brazil, Boff traces the economic and metaphysical ties that bind the fate of the rain forests with the fate of the indigenous peopls and the poor of the land. He shows how liberation theology must join with ecology in reclaiming the dignity of the earth and our sense of a common community, part of God's creation. To illustrate the possibilities, Boff turns to resrouces in Christian spirituality both ancient and modern, from the vision of St. Francis of Assisi to cosmic christology.


A Theology of Liberation

A Theology of Liberation

Author: Gustavo GutiŽerrez

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 0883445425

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This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. The book burst upon the scene in the early seventies, and was swiftly acknowledged as a pioneering and prophetic approach to theology which famously made an option for the poor, placing the exploited, the alienated, and the economically wretched at the centre of a programme where "the oppressed and maimed and blind and lame" were prioritized at the expense of those who either maintained the status quo or who abused the structures of power for their own ends. This powerful, compassionate and radical book attracted criticism for daring to mix politics and religion in so explicit a manner, but was also welcomed by those who had the capacity to see that its agenda was nothing more nor less than to give "good news to the poor", and redeem God's people from bondage.


The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times

The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times

Author: Dean Brackley

Publisher: Herder & Herder

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780824522681

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Fr. Brackley uses the timeless insights of Ignatious to explain a genuine spiritual methodology: True ways of decision making for living better, more fulfilled lives.