Power and Poverty: Divine and Human Rule in a World of Need

Hughes, Dewi

ISBN 10: 0830828095 / ISBN 13: 9780830828098

Published by IVP Academic (edition Special Edition), 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Power and Poverty: Divine and Human Rule in a World of Need
• Publisher: IVP Academic (edition Special Edition)
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0830828095
• ISBN 13: 9780830828098
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Special Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

<p>Author and theologian Dewi Arwel Hughes's conviction is that the suffering, through poverty, of such a vast number of people in our day is overwhelmingly the result of the misuse of power by others. In this wide-ranging, challenging book he unpacks a convicting thesis: that poverty has to do with the way in which we human beings use and abuse the power God gave us when he created us.Hughes challenges you to reconsider your assumptions regarding power, poverty and Christian identity, and he provides biblical perspectives to enable you to both understand the causes of poverty and help in overcoming it.</p>

About the Authors

<p><strong>Dewi Hughes</strong> is theological adviser to Tearfund, an international relief organization based in London, and a member of the Lausanne Movement's Theological Working Group.</p>

Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is international ministries director of the Langham Partnership, providing literature, scholarships, and preaching training for pastors in Majority World churches and seminaries. He has written many books including commentaries on Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel; <em>The Mission of God</em>; <em>Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit</em>; <em>Old Testament Ethics for the People of God</em>; and the three volumes of <em>Knowing God Throughthe Old Testament</em>. An ordained priest in the Church of England, Chris spent five years teaching the Old Testament at Union Biblical Seminary in India and thirteen years as academic dean and then principal of All Nations Christian College, an international training center for crosscultural mission in England. He was chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group from 2005 to 2011 and the chief architect of The Cape Town Commitment from the Third Lausanne Congress, 2010.