Product Description: This collection of all new and original prayers from around the worldwide Anglican Communion makes connections between women's personal lives today and global concerns of women around the globe. They show the connection, for example, between a woman's prayers for her child in the West and the plight of child labour in the third world...read more

Product Description: Dramatic political, economic, and sociocultural changes are taking place in Latin America, opening up promising possibilities for improving the lives of the poor in that region. This book assesses current trends and argues that a market-friendly development model is the most legitimate, desirable, and feasible strategy for attaining a Biblically informed conception of holistic development...read more

What Can One Person Do? confronts a poverty-stricken world, and with clarity of purpose offers practical steps to create lasting change. Global poverty can be reduced through a series of achievable objectives: the eight Millennium Developemnt goals agreed to by the international community at the Millennium Summit in 2000. World leaders and faith communities have adopted the MDGs, as well as the ideas found within this book--for the authors demonstrate that as shared vision grows and as these goals are accomplished, human communities shall indeed flourish.

Product Description: The book is . They are intellectually rigorous, but written in non-technical language for the thoughtful reader. They deal with the exhaustion of the Western Christian tradition and its need to `cross boundaries` if it is to find renewal; why the North should be interested in development; how to respond to highly divergent views about the effects of the global economy; advice to Christian campaigners and demonstrators; differences and similarities between those who set out to reform the global economy and those who reject it wholesale; ways of doing social theology or social ethics; and some of the challenges made by faith traditions in the `South` to the mainstream development tradition...read more

Product Description: Inscription on title page, internally clean, very minor rubbing to edges.

Product Description: The essays touch on the Bible, the world, and the universal church. Biblical studies read several passages of scripture in the light of the contemporary tensions and realities of globalization; essays deal with such key global challenges as climate change, biological diversity and economic development; and theological reflections focus on the tensions between globalization and sustainability...read more

Product Description: Ever since Max Weber started an argument about the role of Protestantism in jump-starting northern Europe's economic development, scholars have clashed over the influence of religion and culture on a society's (or an individual's) economic prospects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From war-torn Vietnam to the urban slums of Peru to a Nicaraguan capital devastated by an earthquake, Jerry Aaker has witnessed life in desperate circumstances. In this book he shares some of his experiences in these places, acknowledging the failures as well as the successes of the relief and development projects in which he has participated...read more

The raison d'etre of this collection of essays is both academic as well as pragmatic. While development seems to have acquired a purely economic connotation, the contributors to this book argue that it should actually be understood as a qualitative, directional adjunct of social change entering into the intangible and multidimensional area of the `human'. It has, therefore, a much deeper and fuller significance which can be readily explicated through the use of religion as an important parameter and component in its understanding. Development should be an endeavour to increase the `humanness' of the human. This collection of essays tries to bring about some sort of clarity to the understanding of this concept. By bringing together the various aspects that are imperative for building effective strategies for third world developement in its widest sense, it endeavours to introduce a pragmatic dimension to the concept.

Product Description: Freedom, Justice, and Hope: Toward a Strategy for the Poor and the Oppressed (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series)