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feelinahole
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| Posted 2/11/2004 6:52 PM (GMT -6) |   | | http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=572&ncid=572&e=3&u=/nm/20040211/lf_nm/bangladesh_grameen_dc_1 | | Back to Top | | |
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Wahoo
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| Posted 2/28/2004 6:11 PM (GMT -6) | | Feelin,
I am in a class about this very subject and I just turned in a paper on the biblical view of the poor. We are reading Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. The statistics are shocking... I feel guilty for having a warm shower with clean water.
The article you posted here features one of my professor's heros. And my professor is someone I respect. But the Sider book has me searching. I've looked at various books and to be honest, the only difinitive work from the United States is Sider's book. The other books I have found are translated. Any guesses what languages those books are in? If you were thinking Spanish then you know what I'm talkin' about. It has been breathed that liberation theology is wrong and dangerous. One book touted that there is no salvation for the rich. I have been wrestling with this one.
There is a book by David Chilton who is dead. It was a harsh response to Sider's titled Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulators.  Thems fightin' words.
Anyway, I am glad you posted the article. If anyone would like to discuss this, I'm not tip top but I have some ideas.
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feelinahole
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| Posted 2/29/2004 8:02 PM (GMT -6) | | Wahoo: I read "Rich Christians" back in the early 80s when I was in college. At first it made me feel gung-ho about changing the world. I still feel it has some valid points. But I don't feel guilty about where I was born, nor about some of the things I have. I give thanks to God and try and help out others as much as possible.
I agree with some of what Sidler wrote, but I do not believe rich people are wrong to be rich (in a basis general sense) just as I do not believe poor people are more loving because they are poor. Its a complicated issue. | | Back to Top | | |
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BBBCanada
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feelinahole
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| Posted 3/30/2004 9:56 AM (GMT -6) | | | I was checking out both books (descriptions, etc.) and, according to Barnes and Noble, "Good of Affluence" is a revised addition of the first boook. | | Back to Top | | |
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feelinahole
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| Posted 4/9/2004 9:44 AM (GMT -6) | | | Brandon: The Good Of Affluence is an excellant book! Thanks for pointing out to me... | | Back to Top | | |
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