Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger · Moving from Affluence to Generosity by Sider, Ronald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface to the Fifth Edition Acknowledgments PART ONE: POOR LAZARUS AND RICH CHRISTIANS

1. A Billion Hungry Neighbors New Economic Divisions in the World Uneven Distribution Famine Redefined Poverty’s Children Making Progress Population Limits to Growth? The Future and Our Response 2. The Affluent Minority Promises, Promises Where Did It All Begin? How Affluent Are We? Poverty at $50,000 a Year? How Generous Are We? Rationalizing Our Affluence

PART TWO: A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE POOR AND POSSESSIONS

3. God and the Poor Pivotal Points of Revelation History God Identifies with the Poor God’s Special Instruments Why Does God Cast Down the Rich? God’s Concern and Ours Is God on the Side of the Poor? 4. Economic Fellowship and Economic Justice Capital in an Agricultural Society The Year of Jubilee The Sabbatical Year Laws on Tithing and Gleaning Models to Follow and Avoid Jesus’ New Community The Jerusalem Model Economic Koinonia How Then Shall We Live? 5. Thinking Biblically About Property and Possessions Private Property The Danger of Riches The Ring and the Beloved Righteousness and Riches Carefree Living 6. Social Evil: Sin Embedded in Societal Systems The Old Testament The New Testament God’s Response

PART THREE: WHAT CAUSES POVERTY?

7. Poverty’s Complex Causes Sinful Personal Choices Unbiblical Worldviews Disasters Lack of Technology Great Inequalities of Power Western Colonialism 8. Structural Injustice Today Evaluating Market Economies International Trade The International Debt Crisis Destroying the Environment and the Poor How Are We Harming God’s Creation and the Poor? Eating Food from Hungry Nations Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries Discrimination and War Repentance

PART FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION

9. Toward a Simpler Lifestyle:The Graduated Tithe and Other Modest Proposals The God of North America Some Examples The Graduated Tithe Communal Living Guidelines for Giving Some Practical Suggestions Evaluating Organizations How Generous Are We? The Sabbath and Our Lifestyles A Call for Loyalty 10. Watching Over One Another in Love A Sociological Perspective New Patterns of Christian Community A Congregation of House Churches The Individual House Church “All Things in Common” Glass Cathedrals in an Age of Hunger? The Triple Five Plan 11. Making the World More Fair Ambulance Drivers or Tunnel Builders? Who Will Be Helped? A Change in Foreign Policy Social Change and Conversion Correcting Weaknesses of Market Economies Making International Trade More Fair Reducing Unmanageable Debt Preserving the Earth and Empowering the Poor Does Foreign Aid Help? Bombs, Bread, and Illusions Organizations That Make a Difference Let Justice Ring

Epilogue Appendix A:Works Cited Appendix B: Organizations Endnotes Index of Persons and Topics