How This Book Works Reflecting on Poverty: - Bishop Graham Tomlin Foreword: Cardinal Vincent Nichols List of Abbreviations List of Contributors I. Poverty Then and Now 1. Two Concepts of Poverty: A Theological Analysis - Justin Thacker, Cliff College, UK 2. Poverty and Its Causes in the Early Church - Lynn H. Cohick, Denver Seminary, USA 3. Causes of Poverty Today - Katie Harrison, Tearfund, UK 4. Response to Lynn H. Cohick - Katie Harrison, Tearfund, UK 5.
Dream Better Dreams: Response to Katie Harrison - Lynn H. Cohick, Denver Seminary, USA 6. 'Do Good to All (Galatians 6.10): Assets, Capital, and Benefaction in Early Christianity - Bruce W. Longenecker, Baylor University, USA 7. Benefaction Today? - John Coleby, Caritas, UK 8. Response to Bruce Longenecker - John Coleby, Caritas, UK 9. Response to John Coleby - Bruce W.
Longenecker, Baylor University, USA 10. Patronage and People: Paul's Perspective in Philippians - Steve Walton, St. Mary's University, UK 11. Patronage Today - Helen Hekel, Tearfund, UK 12. Response to Steve Walton - Helen Hekel, Tearfund, UK 13. Response to Helen Hekel - Steve Walton, St. Mary's University, UK 14. Paul and the Gift to Jerusalem: Overcoming the Problems of the Long-Distance Gift - John M.
G. Barclay, University of Durham, UK 15. Raising Funds in One Place, Giving to Another: Gift Distribution Today - Virginia Luckett, Tearfund, UK 16. Response to John Barclay - Virginia Luckett, Tearfund, UK 17. Response to Virginia Luckett - John M.G. Barclay, University of Durham, UK 18. Wealth and Dehumanization: Ezekiel's Oracles against Tyre - Myrto Theocharous, Greek Bible College, Greece 19.
Poverty and Dehumanization - Ellie Hughes, Riverbank Trust, UK 20. Response to Myrto Theocharous - Ellie Hughes, Riverbank Trust, UK 21. Response to Ellie Hughes - Myrto Theocharous, Greek Bible College, Greece 22. The 'Undeserving Poor' in the Early Church - Fiona J. R. Gregson, Diocese of Birmingham, UK 23. The 'Undeserving Poor' Today: The Rhetoric and Theological Development of a Problematic Category - Hannah Swithinbank, Tearfund, UK 24. Response to Fiona Gregson - Hannah Swithinbank, Tearfund, UK 25.
Response to Hannah Swithinbank - Fiona Gregson, Diocese of Birmingham, UK 26. The Early Church, The Roman State, and Ancient Civil Society: Whose Responsibility are the Poor? - Christopher M. Hays, Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia, Colombia 27. Poverty and the Powers Today - Stephen Timms MP, House of Commons, UK 28. Response to Christopher Hays - Stephen Timms MP, House of Commons, UK 29. Response to Stephen Timms , MP - Christopher M. Hays, Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia, Colombia 30. The Poor Will Always be among You: Poverty, Education and the Catholic Ideal - Francis Campbell, St.
Mary's University, UK II. Responding and Reflecting 31. Review: Responding and Summarizing - Craig Blomberg, Denver Seminary, USA 32. Between Today and Yesterday: Evidence, Complexity, Poverty and the 'Body' of Christ - Francis Davis Select Bibliography Index.