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

by Dewi Hughes, Christopher J.H. Wright (Foreword)

In this wide-ranging, challenging book Dewi Arwel Hughes 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. He then provides biblical perspectives to enable you to both understand the causes of poverty and help in overcoming it.

253 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2009

Reviews

[Simon Wiebe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Schwach angefangen, stark nachgelassen.

[Doug · Rating 3 out of 5]

Conservative Christians such as myself get spooked so easily by any lingo outside our tradition. I was hoping to find a book on how Christ's kingdom focuses on the poor that didn't needlessly end up in deep ecology weirdness, etc. This book isn't that exciting, but it's sane and balanced to help nudge conservative readers out of their deep individualism. It's something of an Old Testament survey of that subject, similar to Brueggemann's The Prophetic Imagination.