Jubilee: God's Answer to Poverty? SAMPLE

“Jubilee – God’s Answer to Poverty provides rich perspectives on poverty, sin, broken relationships, jubilee, the response of the church, discipleship, and so on. It demonstrates a consistent engagement with the Bible, with integrity. One hears voices from the passionate margins of our society with an interesting mix of macro level analysis as well as indigenous group perspectives. The book calls on the people of God to provide a credible alternate, based on the Bible to a rapidly secularising humanitarian conversations.”

Jayakumar Christian, Former National Director, World Vision India “This is a timely and challenging book for our times. The different voices in these chapters remind us that ‘jubilee’ doesn’t always look the same. It is a duty of the church to discern what poverty looks like in different contexts and to participate in God’s work for the restoration of all of creation. This volume can help us in that process.”

Dr Rosalee Velloso Ewell, Principal of Redcliffe College and Director of Church Relations for the United Bible Societies “This is the kind of book that I’ve been wanting to see for years. Poverty has global causes and requires global solutions, and so the huge strength of this book is its multiplicity of voices and perspectives. I’m not convinced jubilee is the ‘answer’ to poverty, but as the authors demonstrate it certainly shows us the path we need to travel.”

Justin Thacker, author of Global Poverty: A Theological Guide “Spanning geographic breadth and theological depth of both Old and New Testaments, the authors clearly and boldly explore the expression of jubilee in their contexts. They brightly illuminate the place of God’s land and people in justice, restoration, and liberation.”

Laura Yoder, John Stott Chair and Director of Program in Human Needs and Global Resources, Professor of Environmental Sciences Wheaton College Illinois “In the face of genocide and in the face of so much contemporary injustice the biblical principle of jubilee refreshes our outlooks and commands us to start again to put things right… this collection asks us to begin that journey once again. I commend its urgency.”

Professor the Lord Alton of Liverpool “For so long, evangelicals have been merely feeding the poor and not asking why they are poor. This book is a good start in re-imagining how societies may look like if the jubilee is taken seriously as a structural answer to systemic injustice and generational poverty, restoring the land as central to economic security and also as locus of meaning and identity.”

Melba Padilla Maggay, Ph.D. President Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture (ISACC)